On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Jana, Kumar Raja wrote:
Is it possible to patch the fix for Tika-521 to Tika 0.8 without upgrading to POI 3.8?
Tika 0.8 is fairly old, there have been lots of new features and bug fixes since then. Ditto POI 3.7
There is TikaExcelEventBasedExtraction.diff attached to the Jira case, can this be used to resolve the issue?
The patch won't work against 3.7 as it needed new features only in 3.8. You might be able to do some work and apply it to 3.7 with a few bits of functionality missing (eg protection info)
We are tied down to POI 3.7 and cannot move to POI 3.8 due to compatibility issues with other code.
POI 3.9 should be out shortly, I'd suggest you try with that, report any problems / regressions so they can be fixed before the final release, then go with that! If you look at the change list http://poi.apache.org/changes.html you'll see how many bug fixes there have been!
Nick
