#5634 - spreadsheets: Replace Spout with another library

By PDStig
Added 5th Mar 2024, 9:36 PM
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Identifier	#5634
Issue type	Major issue (breaks an entire feature)
Title	spreadsheets: Replace Spout with another library
Status	Completed
Tags	Roadmap: v11 (custom)
Handling member	PDStig
Addon	General / Uncategorised
Description	The Spout library for spreadsheets is no longer in active development, does not support PHP 8, and throws many deprecation notices. It should be replaced with a PHP 8 compatible library in active development.
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By Guest posted 5th Mar 2024, 9:36 PM

Automated message: This issue was created using the Report Issue Wizard on the Composr homesite.

By Guest posted 31st Jul 2024, 4:52 PM

Consider OpenSpout

https://github.com/openspout/openspout

(Note they do not "support" PHP 7 in version 4 so will need to test if this will work in 7.2. Can't use v3 because that doesn't support PHP 8 [well, it does, but with deprecation errors].)

By Guest posted 1st Aug 2024, 5:25 PM

Given this is a non-bundled addon we are under no obligation to support the same range of PHP versions that Composr core supports, esp older ones the PHP community doesn't support. It just needs the PHP minimum version specifying in the addon_registry hook (requires).

By Guest posted 12th Oct 2024, 1:56 PM

Done, but temporarily leaving this open because OpenSpout has a bunch of developer libraries in their Composer; see if we can get rid of these to reduce file size.

By Guest posted 12th Nov 2024, 6:43 PM

I got rid of the dev libraries. Marking resolved.

#5634 - spreadsheets: Replace Spout with another library

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