Re: BIFF loader source

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 08:34:34PM +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
>       So - really, the changes need to be re-integrated into the main excel
> plugin, which should be fairly trivial. Then another ms-excel-stream
> implementation needs to be written. Possibly the easiest way to do this
> is by writing a MsOleStream impl. for a plain biff file - since it's all
> virtualized at that level anyway.

Actually, Nick discussed it before redoing things this way and I'd
rather it stay distinct.  The XL plugin is critical enough that
destabilizing it with an infrequent code path seems a bad bet.
Utility routines should be shared as much as possible, but
individual record parsers for the older records are generally fairly
different so there is no major gain.