Standards or the lack of them

Nov 29, 2004 11:20

Finally got gnumeric to work properly on my box at work. It used to show me weird glyphs whenever I used to try importing an Excel worksheet, building from CVS seems to have fixed that ( Read more... )

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bluesmoon November 29 2004, 00:17:17 UTC
The locale error messages are from Xlib, not from the app.

Also, the GNUmeric developers recommend using OpenOffice as it is more complete.

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vishalparakh November 29 2004, 02:07:37 UTC
Yeah I know the error messages are from Xlib. I still get them. But I still wonder why 1.2.13 would display those funny glyphs and crash on Excel save on Linux but not on fBSD.

The CVS HEAD version seems to work fine.

Why not OpenOffice? It's a lot slower and heavier (and doesn't look as good, IMHO). Excel export breaks in places. Plus I'm forced to use 32-bit compat mode :D

Come on, OO is probably a very non-portable piece of OpenSource software. It compiles only with gcc 3.2 and 3.3 and tends to build it's own versions of shlib's. It's kinda brittle.

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bluesmoon November 29 2004, 02:12:59 UTC
I didn't recommend OO. The Gnumeric devels did.

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