Re: The next Gnome Office release.

[Charles Goodwin <charlie xwt org>]

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 23:13 -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> A change from 1.2 to 1.4 for applications such as gnumeric is anything
> but `minor'. The change from gnumeric 1.2 to 1.4 will move gnumeric from
> Gnome 2.4 to Gnome 2.6 and add a whole bunch of other changes.
> 
> It is essential that the Gnome Office version numbering allows us to
> figure out which underlying versions of the individual applications is
> included. If Gnome Office 2.0.0 initially included gnumeric 1.4.1 and
> later gnumeric 1.4.2 just because no other component had a release, bug
> tracking becomes very difficult: If one is successful with branding
> `Gnome Office' the bug reports will refer to the Gnome Office version
> but we need the component version to address bugs.

Which is precisely why I'm advocating that GO 2.0.0 might contain
Gnumeric 1.4.1, but it'd then have to be at least GO 2.0.1 that could
contain Gnumeric 1.4.2.
-- 
- Charlie

Charles Goodwin <charlie xwt org>
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