Sharing work like that sounds like a great idea. There's certainly no good
technical reason to have two GPL libraries for reading and writing OLE2
streams, is there? :-)
Our current Word import functionality is a hacked version of Caolan's
MSWORDVIEW libraries, but Justin is working on a cleaner replacement. The
last time I saw this issue discussed on the list, I believe Justin was
planning to layer his work on top of COLE, but I'm not sure what the current
status is.
One potential constraint you should be aware of, though -- we're a
cross-platform product, running natively on BeOS, Linux/*BSD/Solaris, and
Win32. We've occasionally run into some portability gotchas when using old
Unix code (such as ispell), but vanilla ANSI C rarely causes problems.
Paul
At 04:14 PM 5/7/99 -0500, Michael Meeks wrote:
> I was wondering, given we are both working on a GPL project, is it
>possible that we can share our OLE work ? I have written a scad of OLE2
>code for 'gnumeric', and am hoping to turn it into a library at some
>stage. Sadly this was written independantly of Andrew Scriven's work, but
>since he seems no longer able to maintain his stuff, and I am working on
>my code, and will be ( God willing ) finishing the embryonic write
>functionality soon it might be good to share thoughts / developments ?
>
> Not on your development list: sorry, can you CC followups if any
>?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael Meeks.
>
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