Re: Gnumeric & graphing

[Nick Lamb <njl98r ecs soton ac uk>]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:06:04PM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> Let me be blunt.  Graphing has been a massive pain.  We've tried to
> use existing technologies and been terribly unlucky.  Bonobo was a
> resource drain that never paid off, libguppi became unmaintained,
> and no code to use gtkextras ever quite materialized.  We've already
> had 2 iterations of the damn framework with next to no knowledge
> transfer between them.

I'm glad to see this from Jody. I never liked these blue sky "Once we
have interstellar travel [full object embedding system] we will be able
to go to Canada [working graphs] really easily" projects and I will
pledge what time I can to making sure Gnumeric delivers now that it's
on the right track.

> Folks we need more hands here.  1.1.x has long been ready to freeze
> and make the jump to being the next stable release, but until graphs
> come into play we're locked out.  If you have time, we have a
> project.

I will try to build a current Gnumeric CVS this week and get back to
you, is this still at the planning stage, or is there code I should
look at already in CVS?

Nick.