Re: post-next snapshot

[toddg <toddg openspec net>]

Jody Goldberg wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 01:28:32PM -0800, toddg wrote:
> > I'm trying to get a program on Linux to batch convert from excel to csv
> > and gnumeric formats.  Does anyone know how I might break the conversion
> > code out of gnumeric, or otherwise compile a lib to import Excel?
> > (without the GUI, of course...)
> >
> > Where might I look first?
>
> There are two ways of approaching this.
>     1) Treat most of the gnumeric code a library, and create a
>        slightly modified version of main.c.
>     2) Wait until the CORBA factories have been updated to work with
>        the new Workbook MVC split.
>
> Neither approach is plug and play.  (1) is probably slightly less
> work.  However, no architectural changes are needed.  These are
> mainly some finishing work.

1) also seems like fastest approach.

Would anyone on this list be available for a contract project to implement
something like this?