Re: Gnumeric 0.48 with enhanced toys is out.

[Daniel Veillard <Daniel Veillard w3 org>]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 11:19:32PM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> >    A new version of Gnumeric has been released: 0.48 is out on the FTP
> > site now.
> > 
> >    This version of gnumeric is pretty impressive.  The Gnumeric
> > hackers have worked very hard in many areas to improve the
> > spreadsheet.
> > 
> >    The major visible feature in this release is the beginning of the
> > Undo support written by Jody Goldberg.  Jody also did a number of
> > impressive hacks on this release that are detailed below.
> > 
> >    This version does require gnome-xml 1.8.5 to compile, as a small
> > problem was found in the previous version that made people's
> > spreadsheets not load.
> 
> Oh, jolly.  For those of us who are running either RedHat, or perhaps
> other RPM based distros, this just might be ugly.  Right now, there
> isn't a 1.8.5 libxml rpm on the gnome.org site, and creating an RPM from
> the libxml-1.8.5.tar.gz gives me this "SNAP" thing.  I imagine that it
> will work (waiting for compile now), but what's the deal with "SNAP"?

  I will remove the SNAP string from the RPMs I build now.
The libxml RPMs are usually build by me and stored in two pplaces:
  - the contrib of gnome.org
  - ftp://rpmfind.net/pub/veillard/

 1.8.5 is believed to be stable, and has been tested for gnumeric.

Daniel

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