Re: gnumeric XML incompatibilities

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

  I didn't follow the gnumeric file format evolution in the last year,
and I'm not the best person to ask.

  It seems that the best is probably to recompile a (static ?)
version of 0.61 which would run on Red Hat 6.2 .

Daniel

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:52:31PM -0700, Nils Turner wrote:
> Hi
>
> Sorry to bother you, but I have a bit of a dilemma.  Due to
> circumstances beyond my control, I find myself having to integrate a
> RedHat 7.1 system with a RedHat 6.2 system.  The RedHat 6.2 system uses
> version 0.48 of gnumeric while RedHat 7.1 uses version 0.61.  I have
> found that gnumeric XML files created by version 0.61 cannot be read by
> version 0.48.  Version 0.61 can read version 0.48 XML files (with some
> font discrepancies), but as soon as the file is saved, it is again
> unreadable by version 0.48.  I have tried to compile version 0.61 on the
> RedHat 6.2 system, and version 0.48 on the RedHat 7.1 system; both
> options require major restructuring of libraries -- more than I am
> willing to do for a simple file discrepancy.  Is there some way to get
> version 0.61 to write XML files that are readable by version 0.48?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Nils
> -- 
> Nils Turner
> The CHARA Array, Mount Wilson
> Georgia State University
> nils mtwilson edu

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