Re: Gnumeric 0.48 with enhanced toys is out.

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc cu-portland edu>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 11:19:32PM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >    A new version of Gnumeric has been released: 0.48 is out on the FTP
> > > site now.
> > >
> > >    This version of gnumeric is pretty impressive.  The Gnumeric
> > > hackers have worked very hard in many areas to improve the
> > > spreadsheet.
> > >
> > >    The major visible feature in this release is the beginning of the
> > > Undo support written by Jody Goldberg.  Jody also did a number of
> > > impressive hacks on this release that are detailed below.
> > >
> > >    This version does require gnome-xml 1.8.5 to compile, as a small
> > > problem was found in the previous version that made people's
> > > spreadsheets not load.
> >
> > Oh, jolly.  For those of us who are running either RedHat, or perhaps
> > other RPM based distros, this just might be ugly.  Right now, there
> > isn't a 1.8.5 libxml rpm on the gnome.org site, and creating an RPM from
> > the libxml-1.8.5.tar.gz gives me this "SNAP" thing.  I imagine that it
> > will work (waiting for compile now), but what's the deal with "SNAP"?
> 
>   I will remove the SNAP string from the RPMs I build now.
> The libxml RPMs are usually build by me and stored in two pplaces:
>   - the contrib of gnome.org
>   - ftp://rpmfind.net/pub/veillard/
> 
>  1.8.5 is believed to be stable, and has been tested for gnumeric.

Cool, I'll have to pick those up later. Can somebody explain what that
"SNAP" thing in the RPM name actually means?  Thanks,
	Greg