I think there are a couple of ways.
The first is to simply checkout the repository (read-only for now) and make
your changes as normal. (You may have done this already). Next run
cvs diff -u
in the jakarta-poi base directory. This will provide a diff of all the
modified files. (It's okay for the output to be sent in one file). Files
you have added to the project you will have to attach yourself.
Alternative you use can probably use the diff command to compare two
directorys. The original source to your modified source. Unfortunately I
can't give you the command because I've never done it like that before.
Post the patch to bugzilla
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=POI
If you can, please write unit tests. Not everything is unit tested 100% in
POI but I'd like to at least have new stuff with unit tests. You can find
heaps of good information about unit tests at http://www.junit.org
I have to agree with you about IDEA. I love it, it just gets better and
better and has really good support for junit.
Good luck and let us know if you need more help.
Regards,
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lo�c Lef�vre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 7:48 PM
Subject: [ABOUT BUG 7011, l10n/ i18n...]
> Hi everybody,
> First, thanks for your answers :)
>
> About the bug 7011, I've solved it, though it was quite
> simple with a good IDE (IntelliJ IDEA, simply the best ;) ).
> So to submit a patch for a file: no problem, but for numerous
> files, how do I do? Write patch for file #1, new line, patch
> for file #2, new line?
>
> About l10n/i18n, I've been responsible of this part for the
> software I'm working on. It has taken about one month but the
> Java API comes with numerous class/methods to help about this
> subject. I'm french so I work with the french version of Excel.
> Since some days, I had to look about a solution to export data
> into Excel. After having developed a little API to write SYLK
> document (readable by Excel), I've found the POI project :D
> I whish to help you to enhance this project to support l10n/i18n
> because I need it of course and because I think this would be great
> for others too. I can first send you document and URLs about this
> subject :) *How about of this?* (perhaps even code source of our software
> but keep it secret ;) ).
>
> For Unit testing, well I need some help since I'm really not aware
> about it though I find the concept quite interesting. Have you URLs?
> Is it in the src/testcases directory?
>
> Regards,
> Lo�c Lef�vre
>
