Re: PY support for gnumeric under Win

[Jean Brefort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Le vendredi 06 janvier 2012 à 15:22 +0100, Schorsch MCMLX a écrit :
> Dear Jean,
>
> > We could never get Python support in the Windows version. Actually the
> > issue was that functions written in Python made gnumeric crash. We would
> > need a developper using Windows to debug the issue.
> hmmm, do you think that issue could probably be resolved by using gdb 
> under Win??

Hopefully yes, if the bug is in gnumeric code at least.

> Then I would give it a try. I suppose, the first step would be to try 
> to successfully compile gnm 1.10.17 using gcc 4.6.2 under WinXP/Win7, 
> wouldn't it? I admit that the remark " that recompilation is very 
> difficult.)" on the gnumeric website does not read encouraging...

Not sure that anybody ever built gnumeric under any Win version.

> I experienced some problems with the Linux PY API, too, when trying to
> add extended precision functions relying on mpmath, e.g., the 
> description strings did not appear in gnumeric. So there might be 
> problems hidden in the PY API code as well. Do you still have contact 
> to the developer of the PY API code (living in Poland, if i remember 
> correctly)? 

I have no idea, this code was written before I entered the project.

Regards,
Jean