[Pkg-octave-commit] [SCM] Debian packaging for octave-io branch, master, updated. 5e4844d1ec17c151a696f406a800b673e8b29302

[Sébastien Villemot]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 3f26e25483632f9ab8f20edcd9f80a1ad948db7b
Author: Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr>
Date:   Sat Mar 17 15:06:39 2012 +0100

    Add README.Debian about spreadsheet support

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+Status of spreadsheet support in IO package for Octave
+======================================================
+
+This package provides support for reading Excel (XLS, XLSX) and OpenDocument
+(ODS) spreadsheet files from Octave.
+
+If you installed the packages recommended by octave-io, the following
+interfaces should already be functional:
+
+ * JExcelAPI (JXL): for reading XLS files
+
+ * LibreOffice (UNO): for reading ODS, XLS, XLSX, SXC files
+
+Note that the UNO interface is still experimental. It interacts with running
+LibreOffice processes.
+
+Other interfaces (Apache POI, OpenXLS, ODF Toolkit, JOpenDocument) are not
+available in Debian because they are either not yet packaged or non-free
+(e.g. the poi-ooxml JAR has been removed from libapache-poi-java package since
+it depends on non-DFSG-free software).
+
+You can still manually download and install the corresponding JARs in
+/usr/local/share/java, they should be autodetected. The chk_spreadsheet_support
+function can help you diagnose problems if any.
+
+More information on spreadsheet support can be found in READ-XLS.html and
+READ-ODS.html.
+
+ -- Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr>, Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:10:52 +0100

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