Michal Čihař a écrit :
Hi
Dne Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:18:33 -0400 Marc Delisle marc@infomarc.info napsal(a):
Michal Čihař a écrit :
I still wonder if native support for Excel 2007 is worth including 3 MiB of code.
Where I work, a user faced a situation where simple CSV exporting was not enough but I don't remember the specifics. Maybe Dieter can add his comments about native support's advantages.
Having use case when native Excel is needed would definitely help in making such decision.
Michal, in this old message from June 2004 https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20040608142911.GA1... you mention that you added MS Excel export with PEAR Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer.
Then Garvin Hicking replied "it's a good benefit".
We could ask the phpmyadmin-users list about use cases.
How about shipping just wrapper files (export and import plugins), which would work only if PHPExcel is installed in PHP search path?
This might be more difficult to set up for user in hosting environments.
It definitely would be, however it would save us of licensing troubles and decrease download size.