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RE: [SPAM Detected] Re: HWPF contributions...
Piers,
Excellent! Cant wait to see some patches being applied!
Have you arranged a method with Ryan for contributing patches?
Ryan,
Is HWPF still in the scratchpad, or can it be promoted given its recent
ability to read documents and now perhaps with a few more real world
developers coming onboard.
I can see quite a lot of use for HWPF.
Jason
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Very cool!! I am going to forward this to the dev list.
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From: "Piers Taylor" <pi...@GossInteractive.com>
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Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 11:54 AM
Subject: HWPF contributions...
> Hi Ryan,
>
> I work for an English software company, Goss
> Interactive Ltd. (http://www.gossinteractive.com)
>
> We have been working with the old POI HDF code
> for a little while now. In the course of using
> this code in a business environment we have applied
> a number of tweaks to the code in order to make it
> work with real-world Word docs. In particular we have
> made changes and enhancements to work with Word 2000/XP
> etc.
>
> These include:
>
> * adding the code to handle sprmPHugePapx and the
> associated Data Stream part of the document which
> it uses for data storage.
>
> * adding code for undocumented PAP sprm 0x46.
> (sprmPHugePapx 2)
>
> * adding code for undocumented CHP sprm 0x70.
> (Word 2000+ 32bit RGB character colours)
>
> * fixes for ints sign extending shorts into large
> negative ints.
>
> * some checks for nulls that appear in Word 2000/XP docs
> and cause null pointer exceptions.
>
> All our own work with the aid of open source.
> Absolutely no MS NDAs.
>
> We would like to have our fixes enhancements included in
> your new HWPF code. (We checked to see if any of it was there.)
> Then we would like to change over to using HWPF. We would
> be interested in contributing future fixes/enhancements.
>
> How would you like to proceed with this?
>
> Best regards,
> Piers
>
>
> Piers Taylor - Senior Developer
> Goss Interactive Ltd
> http://www.gossinteractive.com
> Telephone: +44 1752 517350
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Re: HWPF contributions...
Posted by Rainer Klute <kl...@rainer-klute.de>.
Am Freitag, den 31.12.2004, 08:31 +1100 schrieb Glen Stampoultzis:
> While there is currently no active developers for HWPF there's no reason
> why someone can't step up to this task. You don't need CVS access to
> develop for HWPF. Simply attach your patches to bugzilla and keep
> nagging us until we commit them. People who show that they are prepared
> to stick at it will most likely be given commit access.
+1
I am willing to be the one to be nagged and to do the CVS access.
Besides the actual checking in of patches I could do some minor reviews
now and then of source code, test cases and documentation to help ensure
software quality.
So, who's the one to compile an overview of the following:
* the current HWPF status,
* the patches in <http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/> to be
checked in (and those that should be ditched),
* the available test cases and the test cases still to be written,
* the available documentation and the docs to be written,
* anything else that is reasonable
Honor and glory of becoming a POI committer are waiting!
Best regards
Rainer Klute
Rainer Klute IT-Consulting GmbH
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Re: HWPF contributions...
Posted by Rainer Klute <kl...@rainer-klute.de>.
Am Freitag, den 31.12.2004, 11:32 +0100 schrieb Franz Holzinger:
> The information at http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/hwpf/index.html is
> wrong, isn't it?
>
> "Source code in the org.apache.poi.hwpf.extractor tree is legacy code. "
Perhaps that statement is correct, "extractor" is indeed legacy code and
has been removed from the CVS HEAD. Does anybody else know about it?
> At
> http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-poi/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/
> no extractor directory can be found.
> Which is the correct actual CVS source path for HWPF?
This is the correct path.
* HWPF seems to be available in
src/documentation/content/xdocs/hwpf,
src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf,
src/scratchpad/examples/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf, and
src/scratchpad/testcases/org/apache/poi/hwpf while the old
* HDF is avaibale in src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hdf and
src/scratchpad/testcases/org/apache/poi/hdf.
It would be something you'd have to find out yourself unless others can
help.
Best regards
Rainer Klute
Rainer Klute IT-Consulting GmbH
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Re: HWPF contributions...
Posted by Franz Holzinger <fr...@fholzinger.com>.
The information at http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/hwpf/index.html is
wrong, isn't it?
"Source code in the org.apache.poi.hwpf.extractor tree is legacy code. "
At
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-poi/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/
no extractor directory can be found.
Which is the correct actual CVS source path for HWPF?
Franz Holzinger
Glen Stampoultzis schrieb:
>
> While there is currently no active developers for HWPF there's no reason
> why someone can't step up to this task. You don't need CVS access to
> develop for HWPF. Simply attach your patches to bugzilla and keep
> nagging us until we commit them. People who show that they are prepared
> to stick at it will most likely be given commit access.
>
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Re: HWPF contributions...
Posted by Glen Stampoultzis <gs...@iinet.net.au>.
While there is currently no active developers for HWPF there's no reason
why someone can't step up to this task. You don't need CVS access to
develop for HWPF. Simply attach your patches to bugzilla and keep
nagging us until we commit them. People who show that they are prepared
to stick at it will most likely be given commit access.
Regards,
Glen
Franz Holzinger wrote:
> I also would like to know how it works to make contributions to the HWPF.
> Does anyone have an answer to this question almost one year later?
>
>
> Franz Holzinger
>
> Height, Jason schrieb:
>
>> Ryan,
>>
>> Is HWPF still in the scratchpad, or can it be promoted given its recent
>> ability to read documents and now perhaps with a few more real world
>> developers coming onboard.
>
>
>
>>> We would like to have our fixes enhancements included in
>>> your new HWPF code. (We checked to see if any of it was there.)
>>> Then we would like to change over to using HWPF. We would
>>> be interested in contributing future fixes/enhancements.
>>>
>>> How would you like to proceed with this?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Piers
>>
>
>
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Re: HWPF contributions...
Posted by Franz Holzinger <fr...@fholzinger.com>.
Piers Taylor wrote:
>>Does anyone have an answer to this question almost one year later?
> Well we did some work and our patches have, I believe, been rolled in.
I hope you have checked this.
> As far as I know HWPF hasn't made it out of scrachpad, and I think
> a code review is required plus all the other things (documentation
> testcases) mentioned elsewhere. I had hoped to do some more work
> on this myself, but unfortunatley the preasurres of making a living
> have left me with no free time until at least march 2005, for which
> I can only appologise. It may be possible for me to do some more work
> then. In the meantime it would be great if someone has the time and
> energy to take HWPF forward.
If you send me some details (email) what exactly to do, I will look on
it. Do you have any paper plan of this, how it shall work (maybe fully
compatible to the JACOBGEN http://www.bigatti.it/projects/jacobgen/ WORD
classes for the JACOB COM bridge http://danadler.com/jacob/).
Franz
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Re: HWPF contributions...
Posted by Rainer Klute <kl...@rainer-klute.de>.
Hi all,
presently many people care *about* HWPF but no one cares *for* it. What
we need is someone to stand up, take that thing under his hood as his
baby and bring it forward. Ryan is no longer on board, so HWPF is an
orphan child waiting to be adopted.
Who is the one?
Best regards
Rainer Klute
Rainer Klute IT-Consulting GmbH
Dipl.-Inform.
Rainer Klute E-Mail: klute@rainer-klute.de
Körner Grund 24 Telefon: +49 172 2324824
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Am Donnerstag, den 30.12.2004, 18:57 +0100 schrieb Franz Holzinger:
> I also would like to know how it works to make contributions to the HWPF.
> Does anyone have an answer to this question almost one year later?
>
>
> Franz Holzinger
>
> Height, Jason schrieb:
>
> > Ryan,
> >
> > Is HWPF still in the scratchpad, or can it be promoted given its recent
> > ability to read documents and now perhaps with a few more real world
> > developers coming onboard.
>
>
> >>We would like to have our fixes enhancements included in
> >>your new HWPF code. (We checked to see if any of it was there.)
> >>Then we would like to change over to using HWPF. We would
> >>be interested in contributing future fixes/enhancements.
> >>
> >>How would you like to proceed with this?
> >>
> >>Best regards,
> >> Piers
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Re: HWPF contributions...
Posted by Piers Taylor <ap...@2vu.com>.
Hi All,
> Does anyone have an answer to this question almost one year later?
Well we did some work and our patches have, I believe, been rolled in.
As far as I know HWPF hasn't made it out of scrachpad, and I think
a code review is required plus all the other things (documentation
testcases) mentioned elsewhere. I had hoped to do some more work
on this myself, but unfortunatley the preasurres of making a living
have left me with no free time until at least march 2005, for which
I can only appologise. It may be possible for me to do some more work
then. In the meantime it would be great if someone has the time and
energy to take HWPF forward.
Best regards,
Piers
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Subject: Re: [SPAM Detected] Re: HWPF contributions...
I also would like to know how it works to make contributions to the HWPF.
Does anyone have an answer to this question almost one year later?
Franz Holzinger
Height, Jason schrieb:
> Ryan,
>
> Is HWPF still in the scratchpad, or can it be promoted given its recent
> ability to read documents and now perhaps with a few more real world
> developers coming onboard.
>>We would like to have our fixes enhancements included in
>>your new HWPF code. (We checked to see if any of it was there.)
>>Then we would like to change over to using HWPF. We would
>>be interested in contributing future fixes/enhancements.
>>
>>How would you like to proceed with this?
>>
>>Best regards,
>> Piers
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Re: [SPAM Detected] Re: HWPF contributions...
Posted by Franz Holzinger <fr...@fholzinger.com>.
I also would like to know how it works to make contributions to the HWPF.
Does anyone have an answer to this question almost one year later?
Franz Holzinger
Height, Jason schrieb:
> Ryan,
>
> Is HWPF still in the scratchpad, or can it be promoted given its recent
> ability to read documents and now perhaps with a few more real world
> developers coming onboard.
>>We would like to have our fixes enhancements included in
>>your new HWPF code. (We checked to see if any of it was there.)
>>Then we would like to change over to using HWPF. We would
>>be interested in contributing future fixes/enhancements.
>>
>>How would you like to proceed with this?
>>
>>Best regards,
>> Piers
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