Re: sheet names and string format read garbled on EBCDIC machine

[Andrew C. Oliver]

Elvira Gurevich wrote:

This is not a murmur. This is a specific problem and I tried to provide
as much info on it as I could. If you need more info, I would be happy
to get it to you. It just seems that nobody even looked at the problem
so far. It could be a simple fix for someone familiar with the code...
 

Right, but they're doing it on there own time and priority is being 
handled via personal interest and love of the project.  You said you 
need this now.  If you can't wait on that, then I was just giving you 
alternatives.  I was saying folks offering to run our tests on other 
systems are thus far mere murmurs.  (not yet followed by action)

If you really need a test setup and will use it, please provide me with
more details. I am not a decision maker, but will have to present this
to people.
 

Basically we need this page: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/tests/junit/ 
generated nightly either by running our build (which probably doesn't 
work on a mainframe) or using the junit task from ant to generate it or 
otherwise run the unit tests (jakarta-poi/src/test/**)

-Andy

Thanks,
Elvira.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 1:06 PM
To: POI Users List
Subject: Re: sheet names and string format read garbled on EBCDIC
machine

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 

Hello,

On  3/7/03, I submitted a bug#17791.
To that bug report, I attached the relevant excel files and BiffViewer
traces.  

We re-ran the test with jakarta-poi-1.11.0-dev-20030317.jar, with no
   

changes
 

in results.

We can provide an EBCDIC system for your testing, if that's the reason
   

for
 

the problem to have been neglected so far. 

   

That would help if you're willing to set up an automated process to run 
our unit tests and send back info to our mailing list.  I've asked for 
this for awhile and I've only heard murmurs of volunteers and no 
takers.  We could really use automated testing on systems other than 
Windows and Linux.  I know a number of people who use POI on solaris 
without trouble but I've heared murmurs about problems on various 
Mainframes and minis.

 

I really need this resolved.

   

The best way to get things done urgently and for "free" is to provide 
patches which resolve the issue.   Since the project is run on a 
volunteer basis, things get fixed "when we have time". 

Currently, when not treking around the country, I myself have been 
working on a number of client-funded POI projects and haven't had time 
to work on much else. 

Thanks,

-Andy

 

Thank you.
Elvira Gurevich
iWay Software


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