Re: sticky rows and columns

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:07:01AM -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com> writes:
> >
> > > Seriously folks, Gnumeric is developing rapidly you do not want to
> > > be using a release that is more than 6 months old.  Indeed the last
> > > several versions have a builtin check that displays a _warning_ if
> > > your version is older than that.
> >
> > Eeek!!!
> > Does 0.67 have this check?  How does it work?
>
> Yes, at start up gnumeric/src/main.c
>     if (stat (gnumeric_binary, &buf) != -1 &&
>       buf.st_mtime != -1 &&
>       now - buf.st_mtime > days * 24 * 60 * 60)
>
> We look at the modification date of the executable.  It is a quick
> and simple check that was added in the hope of avoiding the deluge
> of bug reports about ancient fixed bugs in versions of gnumeric
> included in stale distributions eg RedHat 7.1 :-)

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?

Thanks,
-Jonathan