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Gnumeric Developers Interviewed, And V1.2 Previewed

Posted by timothy on from the blocks-of-cells-but-open dept.

Suresh Chandra Das writes "Gnumeric 1.2 is to be released on the 8th of September, and we have a preview of what is coming up ( mirrored here). Also, linmagau.org is running an interview with two of Gnumeric's lead developers -- Jody Goldberg and Andreas L. Guelzow."

9 comments

  1. Like the sound of this... by BrokenHalo · · Score: 2, Informative
    Since Gnumeric is so very functional and damn quick to load. But as I often have to integrate spreadsheets and charts with WP documents (in scientific reports), I fear I'm stuck with OpenOffice for a while.

    Yes, I know LaTeX can handle it, but I haven't had the time to break that learning curve.

  2. OASIS? by fault0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Are the gnumeric developers ever going to switch to the OASIS format soon? (like the koffice developers recently started doing)

    1. Re:OASIS? by Jody+Goldberg · · Score: 1

      We'll support it, but will not adopt it as the native format. Frankly I'd rather use xls than the OASIS xml. I've got a few substantive issues with the core structure of the spreadsheet format as proposed by OpenCalc.

  3. Gnumeric on Mac OSX. by agentk · · Score: 4, Informative

    Gnumeric seems to work ok on OSX. You need to install an X11 Server and Fink, and then, in a Terminal: sudo fink install gnumeric (and wait a long time) or sudo apt-get install gnumeric.

    An Aqua or Carbon port would be cool though.

    If more people used wxWindows, then (a) porting to Windows and Mac would be really easy, and (b) wxWindows would continue to improve as people contributed.

    --

    VOS/Interreality project: www.interreality.org