On 2/19/02 10:08 AM, "James Beckett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have seen several posts here about installing gnumeric by various means. > > After installing successfully does it do what it is supposed to do? Does > it read excel files? does it do multiple sheets? does it save to an > excel file? > There were some problems with earlier versions, but 1.0.2 (which is now the latest fink unstable version, answering your next question) seems to do all of these things--but I haven't used it too much. > Just checking to see if it is worth the effort since it is not in stable > file. > > The gnumeric site says it is up to 1.0x? why is the unstable version > from fink older than that? > 1) I show gnumeric-1.0.2 as the most recent unstable version, and have it installed. Have you done a selfupdate lately? > Would the newer versions be more stable? Possibly not. Stability in this case refers to that of the OSX/Darwin port. Packages are graduated to stable by the fink maintainer if they get positive feedback that the package works correctly. > > Jim > > -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University, LDX Collaboration MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
