Re: ANNOUNCE: GtkSheet-5.3

[Adrian Feiguin <adrian ifir ifir edu ar>]

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:

> Adrian Feiguin wrote:
> > You can download it from my ftp site:
> >   ftp://ripley.ifir.edu.ar/pub/gtk/gtksheet/gtksheet-5.3.tar.gz
> 
> FYI: I've set up a mirror at 
> ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/unix/gtk-etc/libs/gtksheet/

Thank you!

> 
> > To allocate memory, I used an array of pointers. I could used a linked
> > list or a hash table, but I was originally inspired in SC (I wanted to do
> > a Gtk port for it), so memory allocation routines are inspired on SC's.
> 
> Way cool.  I like sc since it's the first spreadsheet I was using
> for real stuff and the only one I'm using.  I know that upstream
> development has stopped.  Since I maintain the Debian version of
> it I'd appreciate if you worked out any good patches which you could
> send to me.  (the y2k problem is already fixed.)
> 

I'm sorry, but I haven't been working on any patch for SC. I've just
wanted to improve the GUI in order to make it more friendly, and porting
it to GTK. Anyway I left this idea because my real job takes me a lot of
time, but anyone could do this, it's not difficult.

> btw. I'm not sure if a gtk version of sc would be appropriate.  I guess
> I would more be in favour of gnumeric being able to read+write sc files
> and provide the same functionality.
> 

I think so...

> Regards,
> 
> 	Joey
> 
> -- 
> A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.
>