[Contrib: Evaluation System] Dropping xls as an export format in favour of xlsx

[Matthew Jones]

I see no problem with only supporting the newer xlsx file format. All the
software that deals with .xls exclusively is no longer supported by
Microsoft and has a converter anyway.


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Stephen Marquard <
stephen.marquard at uct.ac.za> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>  Does anyone have any objections to dropping xls as an export format in
> favour of always exporting xlsx for Excel export?
>
>  xlsx export was added in EVALSYS-755 to be used when necessary (more
> than 255 columns), but we recently fixed a bug where it doesn't always seem
> to use the right type, and dropping xls entirely simplifies the code.
>
>  https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-1424
>
>  We've tested the fix for this in our 10.x evaluations branch. If no
> objections, I'll merge the fix to trunk and resolve the issue.
>
>  http://source.sakaiproject.org/viewsvn/?view=rev&rev=86927&root=contrib
>
>  Cheers
> Stephen
>
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