----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "POI Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 4:17 PM Subject: Re: Problem at jakarta-poi-1.9.0-dev-20030112.jar and later
> g/eventmodel/s//eventusermodel/g - if it hurts too much let me The sarcasm is hardly helpful. Let me recapitulate, again, my problem. I just want to read some spreadsheets using Java. I tried doing this on the last "final" level, but had some random crashes. So I was told to try and reproduce the problem on the last "dev" level, but someone had accidentally left some debugging code in that level which made it unuseable. So I was directed to use the latest "nightly" level. But that level has a class hierarchy which is incompatible with that for level 1.8 and before. That incompatibility is something which I presume is familiar to the POI development community which probably discussed it at length before proceeding. The problem is with the user community. It is reasonable, I suppose, that the development community might decide to postpone updating the "Changes" section of the web site until the exact extent of the changes between 1.8 and 1.9 was established. But in the absence of such a report, how was I as a user supposed to become aware of the change? Yes I can see now that the description of the HSSF event model classes has changed, but I do not feel that it is reasonable to expect a user to notice something so typographically minor unless it is brought to the user's attention, preferably in a less dramatic fashion than the user's working application crashing. Meanwhile I am still stuck with a program that works most of the time, which is not a situation with which I am comfortable saddling my users. So could someone please help me with my problem. And without the sarcasm! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
