Re: sticky rows and columns

[Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com>]

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 :-)