Re: post-next snapshot

[Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com>]

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?

This is very much a design goal we are working towards.  From a high
level architectural perspective this is now possible.  However, I
have yet to try it so there may still be GUI dependencies in there.

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.

Hope this helps,
    Jody