Re: sticky rows and columns

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Morten Welinder <terra diku dk> writes:

>    Hrm.  Would you mind if we upped that.  I think if it would be bad if
>    gnumeric warned people if they were running an older version before we
>    had the newer version available.  We tend to release every 6 months or
>    so, and cut the CD a month before we ship.  Is nine months more
>    reasonable?
>
> I'm tempted to make it X months from the last date in ChangeLog at
> the time of compilation.  Right now we are not protected against
> stale, but re-compiled versions.
>
> 9 months compilation age + (say) 3 months source age is forever in
> Gnumeric terms.  I am not sure I like that idea.

Indeed.  

> The warning reads...
>
>     _("Thank you for using Gnumeric!\n"
>     "\n"
>     "The version of Gnumeric you are using is quite old\n"
>     "by now.  It is likely that many bugs have been fixed\n"
>     "and that new features have been added in the meantime.\n"
>     "\n"
>     "Please consider upgrading before reporting any bugs.\n"
>     "Consult http://www.gnumeric.org/ for details.\n"
>     "\n"
>     "-- The Gnumeric Team."));
>
> ...I don't see why that would bother you -- we seem to be the ones geting 
> the bug reports.

I just want to guarantee that there will be a Red Hat version of
gnumeric available for them to upgrade to.  I think it would be
unfortunate if partway through the release cycle of Red Hat X.Y,
gnumeric started popping up a dialog informing people it's too old,
without their being a Red Hat X.Y++ available.

Thanks,
-Jonathan