QuantLibAddin Gnumeric support

[Ferdinando Ametrano-3]

Hi Eric,

what about Gnumeric support in QuantLibAddin? Will you personally take care
of it, or should we look for some Gnumeric developer to join us?

I seem to remember that you've already got in touch with Jody Goldberg,
isn't it?

ciao -- Nando

[eric ehlers]

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 12:19:52 +0100, Ferdinando Ametrano
<[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> what about Gnumeric support in QuantLibAddin? Will you personally take care
> of it, or should we look for some Gnumeric developer to join us?

My approach so far has been -
1) to get Jody's feedback on the design, to ensure that what we do can
be extended to support Gnumeric
2) to provide an Addin for C on the assumption that a Gnumeric expert
could further wrap that for Gnumeric.

> I seem to remember that you've already got in touch with Jody Goldberg,
> isn't it?

We haven't spoken recently - Jody, what are your thoughts?

Regards,
Eric

[Jody Goldberg-2]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 12:27:55PM +0000, eric ehlers wrote:

> On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 12:19:52 +0100, Ferdinando Ametrano
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > what about Gnumeric support in QuantLibAddin? Will you personally take care
> > of it, or should we look for some Gnumeric developer to join us?
>
> My approach so far has been -
> 1) to get Jody's feedback on the design, to ensure that what we do can
> be extended to support Gnumeric
> 2) to provide an Addin for C on the assumption that a Gnumeric expert
> could further wrap that for Gnumeric.
>
> > I seem to remember that you've already got in touch with Jody Goldberg,
> > isn't it?
>
> We haven't spoken recently - Jody, what are your thoughts?

I haven't been following the conversation, but our development tree
has just reopened and it would be a good time to work on this.
Where are the specs ?

[eric ehlers]

> I haven't been following the conversation, but our development tree
> has just reopened and it would be a good time to work on this.
> Where are the specs ?

At the links below are the design documents for QuantLibAddin and the
ObjectHandler component it depends on -

http://www.quantlib.org/quep/quep011.html
http://www.quantlib.org/quep/quep012.html 

I suggest you download the latest snapshot of the code from CVS and
have a look at that.  There's an addin for C, and some example
standalone executable clients in C, my assumption is that you can use
these as a basis for the Gnumeric addin.

Some of the source code is autogenerated by a script which is
supplemented by function metadata in XML files.  I gather that
Gnumeric's UI is much richer than Excel's so the metadata will have to
be extended for your purposes.

Regards
Eric