Re: Date arithmetic

[Dave Feustel <dfeustel verizon net>]

On Wednesday 22 June 2005 10:00 pm, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 09:01:48PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 June 2005 08:41 pm, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 08:30:21PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote:
> > > > > Sounds like another bug in the BSD package.
> > > >
> > > > I have worked my way through my printing problems
> > > What was the solution ?
> >
> > Adding Headers and Footers, then getting them to print
> > with the headers and footers, printing to pdf file puts each
> > sheet on a separate page, which I was previously accomplishing
> > by printing each sheet to a separate file. Now I just print the entire
> > spreadsheet to a single pdf file and then print the pdf file using
> > lpr.
> >
> > Gnumeric is no longer crashing on me, but I save my changes frequently
> > just in case.
>
> This sounds like voodoo.
> Something was crashing repeatably it would be nice to know what.

It's not voodoo. I stopped trying to do the things that I had figured
out crashed gnumeric. Yesterday gnumeric went catatonic after I
deleted a pdf file that gnumeric had apparently  not let go of. I aborted
and then restarted gnumeric with no ill effects.

> > Ideally I would like to be able to recompile Gnumeric from source.
> > With that capability I could start tweaking the code  :-).
> Building gnumeric is fairly trivial at this point _if_ you have the
> dependencies installed.  For a system that has not been used for
> development there can be a rather significant number of build tools
> and development libraries required.
>  
> > I like to think that I am very good at testing. One of the problems with
> > reporting bugs in Gnumeric is that the version I'm using has so many
> > bugs,  possibly because in OpenBSD the user application file structure
> > is not like other systems.  (Most, if not all application files go into
> > /usr/local/ rather than into /usr).

> Unlikely, gnumeric is completely parallel installable (or at least
> it was, libspreadsheet needs versionsing for 1.5.3 to restore this).
> I haven't run a copy out of /usr in months.
>
> > I will document bugs with bug reports 
> > more often when I am working with a more current version of Gnumeric.
> > I see a lot of error messages in the console log - a feature I like since it
> > shows that gnumeric is aware of things going wrong.
>
> Sounds good.  Detailed problem reports are helpful.