> So my vote is leave it there and reap the benefit of the work that¹s going
> on. Quite the opposite from your belief I think it will HELP you. Some
> folks will come to the same dreadful conclusion and be interested in
helping
> with the new effort. You'll get patches to the old code that reveal
> something needed in the new.
That makes sense.
> Also the next iteration of our O'Reilly series is undergoing development
> (we've had 2 onjava.com articles so far). I'd like to cover the Word
> effort. Would one of you be interested in helping/doing-all-of writing
that
> part? No money, just exposure for POI (and yourself[-ves]). Here's
hoping
> I find a way to send this before next week...
Development is coming along nicely. Surprisingly, I am able to re-use a lot
of the old stuff. I don't have it to a point that I can actually do
anything, so I am holding off checking anything in. Ideally, if you could
put them off for a couple of weeks or even a month, I think I could have a
version that can do read and write...
Ryan
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