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From: <prn...@us...> - 2012-09-07 14:15:31
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Revision: 10975
http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/octave/?rev=10975&view=rev
Author: prnienhuis
Date: 2012-09-07 14:15:24 +0000 (Fri, 07 Sep 2012)
Log Message:
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version bumped to 1.0.20
Modified Paths:
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trunk/octave-forge/main/io/DESCRIPTION
trunk/octave-forge/main/io/NEWS
Modified: trunk/octave-forge/main/io/DESCRIPTION
===================================================================
--- trunk/octave-forge/main/io/DESCRIPTION 2012-09-07 14:14:41 UTC (rev 10974)
+++ trunk/octave-forge/main/io/DESCRIPTION 2012-09-07 14:15:24 UTC (rev 10975)
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
Name: io
-Version: 1.0.19
-Date: 2012-06-08
+Version: 1.0.20
+Date: 2012-09-07
Author: various authors
Maintainer: Philip Nienhuis <prn...@us...>
Title: Input/Output
Modified: trunk/octave-forge/main/io/NEWS
===================================================================
--- trunk/octave-forge/main/io/NEWS 2012-09-07 14:14:41 UTC (rev 10974)
+++ trunk/octave-forge/main/io/NEWS 2012-09-07 14:15:24 UTC (rev 10975)
@@ -1,146 +1,147 @@
-Summary of important user-visible changes for releases of the io package
-
-===============================================================================
-io-1.0.20 Release Date: 2012-TBA Release Manager: Philip Nienhuis
-===============================================================================
-
-** Bug fixes:
---- xlsopen, xlsclose, odsopen, odsclose: replaced canonicalize_file_name call
- with make_absolute_filename for non-windows systems (canonicalize_file_name
- doesn't work with non-existent (new) files on *nix) (bug #36677);
- Web addresses (URLs) only need two rather than three slashes;
---- xlsopen: matching .jar names to javaclasspath entries worked the wrong way
---- io_xls_testscript / io_ods_testscript: added small delay for UNO calls to
- avoid lock-ups with recent LibreOffice (3.6.x)
-
-** The annoying flashing LibreOffice splash screens have been fixed upstream;
- with LibreOffice 3.6.1 I didn't see them anymore
-
-** Extended file rename section in odsclose similar to that in xlsclose
-
-===============================================================================
-io-1.0.19 Release Date: 2012-06-08 Release Manager: Philip Nienhuis
-===============================================================================
-
-** Bug fixes:
---- getusedrange subfunc getusedrange_jod: str2num applied to indices rather
- than the substring. Must have been there for > 2 years, only surfaced
- with jopendocument v 1.3b1
---- oct2xls, oct2ods: cast all numeric types in input array to double as
- spreadsheets have only double, boolean or character string type. This bug
- has been there from the very beginning of the spreadsheet functions >8-O
-
---- Support for reading back formulas from .xls spreadsheets using ActiveX/COM
-
-** Compatible with jOpenDocument version 1.3b1
- getUsedRange() method added (MUCH faster than the old hack)
-
-** Compatible with odfdom-java-0.8.8-incubator.jar (ODF Toolkit 0.5-incubating)
-
-** Compatible with Apache POI 3.8 final
-
-===============================================================================
-io-1.0.18 Release Date: 2012-03-22 Release Manager: Philip Nienhuis
-===============================================================================
-
-** The following functions have been imported from the miscellaneous package:
- cell2csv csvconcat xmlread
- csv2cell csvexplode xmlwrite
- Their error messages and help messages have been cleaned up a bit.
-
-** Bug fixes:
---- odsfinfo: fixed "wrong type argument `cell'" bug when run interactively.
---- xlsopen, odsopen: fixed messed up screen output due to UNO usage warning.
---- csv2cell: checks if file is empty and if so, return an empty cell.
---- xlsopen: better Java detection logic, more informative error messages
-
-** Adapted to internal LibreOffice-3.5-final changes.
- Some bugs (flashing LO screens) still have to be fixed upstream - see here:
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42470
-
-** Tried OpenXLS-6.0.7.jar. Reads OK, still unusable for writing .xls files.
-
-===============================================================================
-io-1.0.17 Release Date: 2012-02-27 Release Manager: Philip Nienhuis
-===============================================================================
-
-** Bug fixes:
---- oct2ods, oct2xls, odswrite default range input arg. These functions may not
- have worked properly for two years (!)
-
-** Fixed support for odfdom v.0.8.7 (ODS). Note: the OTK interface only works
- well with xercesImpl.jar 2.9.1 (Sep 14, 2009)
-
-** Many small bug fixes & documentation updated to actual functionality.
-
-** Fixed "seealso" texinfo header string in almost all functions.
-
-** Added formal test scripts to "internal functions" section.
-
-===============================================================================
-io-1.0.16 Release Date: 2012-01-19 Release Manager: Philip Nienhuis
-===============================================================================
-
-** Bug fixing release
-
-** PKG_ADD now expects Java spreadsheet class libs (.jars) in /lib/java
- (for MinGW)
-
-===============================================================================
-io-1.0.15 Release Date: 2011-10-02 Release Manager: Philip Nienhuis
-===============================================================================
-
-io-1.0.15 is primarily a bug fix release and a snapshot / wrap-up of current
- development status (some still a bit experimental). It mainly comprises:
-
-** A number of bug fixes (incl. some serious ones, notably with .ods/OOo Calc);
-
-** Some mainly cosmetic improvements to existing code; less verbosity;
-
-** pch2mat (reading & transforming Nastran PCH files, contributed by
- B. Oytun Peksel);
-
-** object2json.m (creating a json description string of objects, contributed
- by Daniel Torre). This was already silently introduced in io-1.0.14;
-
-** A scripted troubleshooting / classpath setup tool for spreadsheet I/O
- support (chk_spreadsheet_support.m);
-
-** Experimental OXS support (OpenXLS) for reading Excel xls (BIFF8).
- OpenXLS is -let's say- a little bit lacking: For reading it is faster than
- JXL. However, while OXS write support has been coded (and works) I had to
- disable it as the OXS Java classes won't release the file handle so Octave
- will hang upon closing :-( I'm stuck with this so I just release it as-is;
-
-** Experimental UNO support, i.e. invoking OpenOffice.org (or clones like
- LibreOffice) behind the scenes to read spreadsheet files, much like
- ActiveX/COM for MS-Excel. This is also based on Java. The first time you
- use UNO, OOo has to be loaded and you'll have to be patient, but once loaded
- (and in the OS cache) you'll see the pros:
- --* Very fast;
- --* Much lower Java memory usage as OOo loads the spreadsheet in its own
- memory chunk (not Octave's) => much bigger spreadsheet capacity;
- --* You can read *all* formats supported by OOo: .ods, .xls, .csv, .xlsx,
- .sxc, .dbf, Lotus wk1, Quattro Pro, ......; and it doesn't really matter
- whether xlsopen of odsopen is used.
- Of course all this wonderful stuff comes at a prize:
- --* After closing the spreadsheet file (odsclose, xlsclose) ALL OOo
- invocations will be closed, also those started outside Octave. This is
- due to "the way OpenOffice works" (quoted from OOo dev forum), especially
- through Java. There are other ways to close OOo but they'll hang Octave;
- --* The Java UNO classes supplied with e.g. LibreOffice aren't kept quite
- up-to-date with the main program. As a consequence, with e.g.,
- LibreOffice 3.4 the main LO window will pop up (it can't be hidden). I
- filed a bug report for this
- (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40991) but I haven't seen
- it being picked up yet. Another example: while LO 3.3.1's row capacity
- was already > 10^6, it took until LO 3.4 before this capacity was
- implemented in the Java UNO classes.
- Like with OXS, I'm a bit stuck here - all this has to be fixed upstream.
-
-Hint:
-for older Octave versions (< 3.4.0) you can install io-1.0.15 using the -nodeps
- flag. You'll then loose the old and buggy textread and csv/dlm-read/write
- functions but I'd consider that as no big loss.
-
- <please scroll up/back to see rest of io NEWS>
+Summary of important user-visible changes for releases of the io package
+
+ ===============================================================================
+ io-1.0.20 Release Date: 2012-09-07 Release Manager: Philip Nienhuis
+ ===============================================================================
+
+ ** Bug fixes:
+ --- xlsopen, xlsclose, odsopen, odsclose: replaced canonicalize_file_name call
+ with make_absolute_filename for non-windows systems (canonicalize_file_name
+ doesn't work with non-existent (new) files on *nix) (bug #36677);
+ Web addresses (URLs) only need two rather than three slashes;
+ --- xlsopen: matching .jar names to javaclasspath entries worked the wrong way
+ --- io_xls_testscript / io_ods_testscript: added small delay for UNO calls to
+ avoid lock-ups with recent LibreOffice (3.6.x)
+
+ ** The annoying flashing LibreOffice splash screens have been fixed upstream;
+ with LibreOffice 3.6.1 I didn't see them anymore
+
+ ** Extended file rename section in odsclose similar to that in xlsclose
+
+ ===============================================================================
+ io-1.0.19 Release Date: 2012-06-08 Release Manager: Philip Nienhuis
+ ===============================================================================
+
+ ** Bug fixes:
+ --- getusedrange subfunc getusedrange_jod: str2num applied to indices rather
+ than the substring. Must have been there for > 2 years, only surfaced
+ with jopendocument v 1.3b1
+ --- oct2xls, oct2ods: cast all numeric types in input array to double as
+ spreadsheets have only double, boolean or character string type. This bug
+ has been there from the very beginning of the spreadsheet functions >8-O
+
+ --- Support for reading back formulas from .xls spreadsheets using ActiveX/COM
+
+ ** Compatible with jOpenDocument version 1.3b1
+ getUsedRange() method added (MUCH faster than the old hack)
+
+ ** Compatible with odfdom-java-0.8.8-incubator.jar (ODF Toolkit 0.5-incubating)
+
+ ** Compatible with Apache POI 3.8 final
+
+ ===============================================================================
+ io-1.0.18 Release Date: 2012-03-22 Release Manager: Philip Nienhuis
+ ===============================================================================
+
+ ** The following functions have been imported from the miscellaneous package:
+ cell2csv csvconcat xmlread
+ csv2cell csvexplode xmlwrite
+ Their error messages and help messages have been cleaned up a bit.
+
+ ** Bug fixes:
+ --- odsfinfo: fixed "wrong type argument `cell'" bug when run interactively.
+ --- xlsopen, odsopen: fixed messed up screen output due to UNO usage warning.
+ --- csv2cell: checks if file is empty and if so, return an empty cell.
+ --- xlsopen: better Java detection logic, more informative error messages
+
+ ** Adapted to internal LibreOffice-3.5-final changes.
+ Some bugs (flashing LO screens) still have to be fixed upstream - see here:
+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42470
+
+ ** Tried OpenXLS-6.0.7.jar. Reads OK, still unusable for writing .xls files.
+
+ ===============================================================================
+ io-1.0.17 Release Date: 2012-02-27 Release Manager: Philip Nienhuis
+ ===============================================================================
+
+ ** Bug fixes:
+ --- oct2ods, oct2xls, odswrite default range input arg. These functions may not
+ have worked properly for two years (!)
+
+ ** Fixed support for odfdom v.0.8.7 (ODS). Note: the OTK interface only works
+ well with xercesImpl.jar 2.9.1 (Sep 14, 2009)
+
+ ** Many small bug fixes & documentation updated to actual functionality.
+
+ ** Fixed "seealso" texinfo header string in almost all functions.
+
+ ** Added formal test scripts to "internal functions" section.
+
+ ===============================================================================
+ io-1.0.16 Release Date: 2012-01-19 Release Manager: Philip Nienhuis
+ ===============================================================================
+
+ ** Bug fixing release
+
+ ** PKG_ADD now expects Java spreadsheet class libs (.jars) in /lib/java
+ (for MinGW)
+
+ ===============================================================================
+ io-1.0.15 Release Date: 2011-10-02 Release Manager: Philip Nienhuis
+ ===============================================================================
+
+ io-1.0.15 is primarily a bug fix release and a snapshot / wrap-up of current
+ development status (some still a bit experimental). It mainly comprises:
+
+ ** A number of bug fixes (incl. some serious ones, notably with .ods/OOo Calc);
+
+ ** Some mainly cosmetic improvements to existing code; less verbosity;
+
+ ** pch2mat (reading & transforming Nastran PCH files, contributed by
+ B. Oytun Peksel);
+
+ ** object2json.m (creating a json description string of objects, contributed
+ by Daniel Torre). This was already silently introduced in io-1.0.14;
+
+ ** A scripted troubleshooting / classpath setup tool for spreadsheet I/O
+ support (chk_spreadsheet_support.m);
+
+ ** Experimental OXS support (OpenXLS) for reading Excel xls (BIFF8).
+ OpenXLS is -let's say- a little bit lacking: For reading it is faster than
+ JXL. However, while OXS write support has been coded (and works) I had to
+ disable it as the OXS Java classes won't release the file handle so Octave
+ will hang upon closing :-( I'm stuck with this so I just release it as-is;
+
+ ** Experimental UNO support, i.e. invoking OpenOffice.org (or clones like
+ LibreOffice) behind the scenes to read spreadsheet files, much like
+ ActiveX/COM for MS-Excel. This is also based on Java. The first time you
+ use UNO, OOo has to be loaded and you'll have to be patient, but once loaded
+ (and in the OS cache) you'll see the pros:
+ --* Very fast;
+ --* Much lower Java memory usage as OOo loads the spreadsheet in its own
+ memory chunk (not Octave's) => much bigger spreadsheet capacity;
+ --* You can read *all* formats supported by OOo: .ods, .xls, .csv, .xlsx,
+ .sxc, .dbf, Lotus wk1, Quattro Pro, ......; and it doesn't really matter
+ whether xlsopen of odsopen is used.
+ Of course all this wonderful stuff comes at a prize:
+ --* After closing the spreadsheet file (odsclose, xlsclose) ALL OOo
+ invocations will be closed, also those started outside Octave. This is
+ due to "the way OpenOffice works" (quoted from OOo dev forum), especially
+ through Java. There are other ways to close OOo but they'll hang Octave;
+ --* The Java UNO classes supplied with e.g. LibreOffice aren't kept quite
+ up-to-date with the main program. As a consequence, with e.g.,
+ LibreOffice 3.4 the main LO window will pop up (it can't be hidden). I
+ filed a bug report for this
+ (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40991) but I haven't seen
+ it being picked up yet. Another example: while LO 3.3.1's row capacity
+ was already > 10^6, it took until LO 3.4 before this capacity was
+ implemented in the Java UNO classes.
+ Like with OXS, I'm a bit stuck here - all this has to be fixed upstream.
+
+ Hint:
+ for older Octave versions (< 3.4.0) you can install io-1.0.15 using the -nodeps
+ flag. You'll then loose the old and buggy textread and csv/dlm-read/write
+ functions but I'd consider that as no big loss.
+
+ <please scroll up/back to see rest of io NEWS>
+
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