[3232] in Release_7.7_team
Re: support for gnumeric
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Apr 4 19:59:56 2002
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
cc: alexp@mit.edu, release-team@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "04 Apr 2002 19:39:07 EST."
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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 19:59:01 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>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.
I'm willing to give it a try- if it breaks soon or often due to shifting
underpinnings I'll most likely remove it. And of course I might not be
able to get it running properly in the first place..
>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 could that would be great- thanks.
>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.
I think I recall errors due to more than two missing libraries, though I
may be misremembering- I since deleted my test installation.
Thanks,
A.
