Re: gnumeric 0.48 vs 0.65

[Dave Reed <dreed capital edu>]

> Cc: gnumeric-list gnome org
> Mail-Followup-To: Roger Mason <rmason sparky2 esd mun ca>,
>       gnumeric-list gnome org
> Content-Disposition: inline
> From: Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>
> Sender: gnumeric-list-admin gnome org
> X-Loop: gnumeric-list gnome org
> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:49:52 -0400
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:22:29AM -0330, Roger Mason wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have two Red Hat installations, on is RH 6.2 the other RH 7.0. They
> > each have different versions of gnumeric installed (0.48 vs 0.65).
> > Gnumeric 0.48 won't read the files written by 0.65. Is there a way round
> > this problem? I have investigated installing the newer version on both
> > machines but it looks likely to be a major headache on the RH 6.2.
> > system because it appears quite a lot of libraries would need to be
> > installed or upgraded.
>
> 0.48 is so ancient its scary, 0.65 is not much better.  The current
> stable release is 1.0.8 and we have guaranteed that all future
> versions will be able to read and write the 1.0.x format.  During
> the 0.x phase we only enforced backwards compatibility, not
> forwards.  So it is not surprising that 0.48 could not read the
> never format.


Look at the date of the original message (Oct 29, 2001) - something is
wrong with the mailing list. Granted the gnumeric versions that came
with Red Hat 6.2 and 7.0 were still old in Oct. 2001 (I believe Red
Hat 7.2 was out then or was very shortly afterwards).

Dave