[3231] in Release_7.7_team
Re: support for gnumeric
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Apr 4 19:39:12 2002
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu
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Date: 04 Apr 2002 19:39:07 -0500
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On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 18:56, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> I've had a number of requests for gnumeric on Athena and had asked
> about this some months ago but don't know if it's been lost or not.
I answered you when you asked before; see release-77 [3068].
gnumeric is very much a moving target right now, as are some of the
libraries it depends on. You should consider whether you have the time
to support such a high-maintenance piece of software.
> [alexp@aardvark alexp]$ ldd /usr/bin/gnumeric
All of these libraries except for libgnomeole2 are in the 9.1 release, I
believe. All of the remainder except for libgal are in the 9.0 release.
It is certainly possible to build GNOME libraries in a locker for use by
an application also in that locker. /mit/evolution/README has some (not
terribly organized) notes on how to do so.
But that may not be necessary. libole2 isn't terribly stable, but it
also looks fairly small and easy to build, so I can throw it into the
9.1 release without much work. If you need updates during the release
cycle, though, we probably won't be able to provide that.
> gnumeric itself in the release would be nice but I can put it in a
> locker if that would be preferred
We definitely don't have the resources to put gnumeric in the release.
