Sure all of my work can be licensed MPL/LGPLv3+. Just noticed I forgot to refer to the bug that gave me the idea to try this (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39900)
August Sodora aug...@gmail.com (201) 280-8138 On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Michael Meeks <michael.me...@suse.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 08:45 -0400, August Sodora wrote: >> Interesting, I'll take a look at those documents. I had actually >> initially thought that adding something to the BASIC language would be >> more controversial than adding a calc cell function :) > > Heh :-) well, the direction we're trying to take StarBasic is towards > more VBA compatibility; so - if this function is used in VBA and has the > same semantics, there is no problem it should get it straight in. > > Wrt. calc there is a lot more UI & documentation work to do there of > course; and the 'FRAC' function appears not to exist for me in Excel - > so there are a number of interop problems that rear their head when this > comes up. ie. if someone uses it in calc, do we try and map this to a > combination of other functions when we export to xls/xlsx ? or ... ;-) > it gets a bit nastier there. > > Looking at it, though I don't believe that VBA does have this function > ( does it ? ), as such there is no huge problem adding it - but it could > impact interoperability in the future. > > Anyhow - Noel liked it, so I pushed it :-) > > Could you send a mail confirming your work is under the MPL/LGPLv3+ and > add yourself to: > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Developers > > Thanks, > > Michael. > > -- > michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot > > _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
