From: James Herdman <james.herdman@...>
Date: 2008-10-18T02:00:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] spreadsheet 0.6.0 Released

------=_Part_51556_6457954.1224262834058
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

ParseExcel mentioned somewhere that it doesn't support formulae.  Does
Spreadsheet?

James

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Hannes Wyss <hannes.wyss@gmail.com> wrote:

> spreadsheet version 0.6.0 has been released!
>
> * <http://spreadsheet.rubyforge.org>
>
> The Spreadsheet Library is designed to read and write Spreadsheet
> Documents.  As of version 0.6.0, only Microsoft Excel compatible
> spreadsheets are supported. Spreadsheet is a combination/complete
> rewrite of the Spreadsheet::Excel Library by Daniel J. Berger and the
> ParseExcel Library by Hannes Wyss. Spreadsheet can read, write and
> modify Spreadsheet Documents.
>
>
> Changes:
>
> ### 0.6.0 / 2008-10-13
> Initial upload of the shiny new Spreadsheet Gem after three weeks of
> grueling labor in the dark binary mines of Little-Endian Biff and long
> hours spent polishing the surfaces of documentation:
>
> * Significantly improved memory-efficiency when reading large Excel
>  Files
> * Limited Spreadsheet modification support
> * Improved handling of String Encodings
> * Runs on top of the ruby-ole Library
>
>
> Roadmap:
>
> 0.7.0: Improved Format support/Styles
> 0.7.1: Document Modification: Formats/Styles
> 0.8.0: Formula Support
> 0.8.1: Document Modification: Formulas
> 0.9.0: Write-Support: BIFF5
> 1.0.0: Ruby 1.9 Support;
>       Remove backward compatibility code
>
>
> Backward Compatibility:
>
> Spreadsheet is designed to be a drop-in replacement for both
> ParseExcel and Spreadsheet::Excel. It provides a number of
> require-paths for backward compatibility with its predecessors. If you
> have been working with ParseExcel, you have probably used one or more
> of the following:
>
>  require 'parseexcel'
>  require 'parseexcel/parseexcel'
>  require 'parseexcel/parser'
>
> Either of the above will define the ParseExcel.parse method as a
> facade to Spreadsheet.open. Additionally, this will alter Spreadsheets
> behavior to define the ParseExcel::Worksheet::Cell class and fill each
> parsed Row with instances thereof, which in turn provide ParseExcel's
> Cell#to_s(encoding) and Cell#date methods.
> You will have to manually uninstall the parseexcel library.
>
> If you are upgrading from Spreadsheet::Excel, you were probably using
> Workbook#add_worksheet and Worksheet#write, write_row or write_column.
> Use the following to load the code which provides them:
>
>  require 'spreadsheet/excel'
>
> Again, you will have to manually uninstall the spreadsheet-excel library.
>
> If you perform fancy formatting, you may run into trouble as the
> Format implementation has changed considerably. If that is the case,
> please drop me a line at hannes.wyss@gmail.com and I will try to help
> you. Don't forget to include the offending code-snippet!
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Cheers
> Hannes
>
>

------=_Part_51556_6457954.1224262834058--