Re: Preparing to release

[Jacob Nikom <jnikom angstrommicro com>]

Jody Goldberg wrote:

> We're targeting Sunday 24 Sept for the next release date.  Its been
> a busy summer and there are lots of improvements and additions.
> Before the release a few areas could use extra testing and
> preparation.
>
> 1) WARNING TO DISTRIBUTIONS
>    Gnumeric now depends on an additional module.
>        Gnome Application Libraries (gal).
>    It has not been officially released yet, and is only available
>    from CVS.  There will be a tarball release before Gnumeric goes
>    out.
>
> 2) Gnumeric users who use locales other than C/POSIX
>    There has been a lot of improvement in support for other locales.
>    Please try
>         - typing accented characters (no wide character support yet)
>         - editing number formats with decimal points other than '.'
>         - saving and loading sheets with values formated using
>           formats
>         - saving a sheet in 1 locale and loading in another.
>
> GRAPHS :
>     There is now basic support for creating graphs via Guppi in the
>     Bonobo version of Gnumeric.  Gnumeric can only access a tiny
>     fraction of Guppi's functionality as yet but we can already
>     display a significant subset of MS excel (tm)'s chart types.
>
>         Bonobo is not yet a frozen api and
>         IS NOT YET PART OF THE RELEASED GNOME PLATFORM.
>
>     People are welcome to try the graphs for themselves using CVS
>     HEAD Gnumeric, Bonobo, and Guppi3.  However, please do not
>     package the Bonobo version of Gnumeric for general distribution.
>     It is not as well tested or as stable as the released version.
>
> Thanks
>
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What about documentation, especially Gnumeric tutorial?
Is it going to be updated?

Regards,

Jacob Nikom