Re: Gnumeric 0.67

[Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com>]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:53:52PM +0100, Nick Lamb wrote:
> Gnumeric 0.67 seems to have been released without much comment on this
> list.
0.67 is almost identical to 0.66.  It fixes a few packaging problems
(missing files).

> I installed it because I was excited that Gnumeric at last has an
> official build in which it includes basic embedding functionality like
> graphs (via Bonobo).
It is a step towards supporting graphs in the production build.
They are not yet part of the default build yet.

> Unfortunately not all is well. Absolutely every file I created with
> previous versions crashes this version during loading.
> Absolutely every XLS file I can find crashes during loading
> Many (but not all) actions in Gnumeric crash it immediately, e.g.
> applying background color style to things.
Something about your setup is unhealthy.  If you post some
backtraces and the results of running ldd on gnumeric we can try and
track things.  The released builds are always tested to ensure that
they can load our test suite of .gnumeric and .xls files.

> Is it the Ximian builds at fault (gnumeric-0.67-ximian.1.i586.rpm) ?
> I can test the source tarballs if someone believes it will help.
Ximian does a fair amount of testing in their packages, so I do not
want to point fingers.  However, you may want to build from source
to see if it makes a difference.  Given the dependency changes from
0.65 -> 0.6[67] it is very likely that the packages may have unmet
depends.  My personal bet would be the bonobo packages.

Good Luck
    Jody