From: Joel Pearson <lists@...>
Date: 2013-05-17T17:21:01+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyExcel version 0.1.5

Just had a thought about this... is it possible to trap calls to the 
methods which use win32ole via method_missing and then require the 
relevant code from there?

My reasoning is that by removing default Excel support in order for the 
data structure to be available on non-win32ole systems (it can still 
output TSV, HTML & Arrays), everyone who uses it will have to put in 
explicit require statements, thus breaking existing code.

If I were able to hold back requiring the extra file until a relevant 
method was called, perhaps that would both allow non-win32ole 
compatibility (just don't use the Excel methods) and still work in 
backward compatibility.

However, I'm not sure whether it'll work, or whether it'd be good 
practice even if it does work. Does anyone have any hints on how to 
around this kind of issue?

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