[Gambas-user] Question about the real scope of Gambas, and other on compatibility

[Rob]

On Saturday 01 December 2007 07:56, Tomas Eroles i Forner wrote:
> By myself I would like to know if is possible (or will be possible
> anytime) to use Gambas for manage OpenOffice documents, that is, if
> could be possible to create Writer, Calc, Draw or Impress documents
> and fill or read them.

The ZIP file component I'm currently writing is meant to be a first 
step towards generating ODF documents (which are XML files stored in 
JAR files, which in turn are ZIP files), though it'll be a long time 
before an ODF component I write will be spec-complete.  (The Perl one 
I use is far, far from spec-complete, and not too user-friendly, and 
I just want to do better than that. ;) )

My ZIP component can currently open a ZIP file and list its contents.  
I'll post a first version once it can read a file from the ZIP file 
into a variable.  That should be enough to allow reading ODF files, 
though I'll probably keep working on gb.zip (or gb.archive.zip or 
gb.compress.zip, whatever Benoit wants me to name it) until it can 
write files as well before tackling ODF.

And my personal preference for writing an ERP application at this 
point would be web-based with some additional background processes.  
While Gambas is certainly capable of that, I personally would use 
perl or php.  Some would say you should use j2ee because it 
has "Enterprise" in its name.  In my opinion, those people need to 
loosen up their neckties a little.

Rob