Michael O'Keefe wrote:
Now that Gus showed me what to look for, it is installed. Perhaps
the author took it for granted that every system should have it already?
On the other hand, it does take QUITE a bit of effort to test for
every contingency, and most hackers just say "it works on my system -
ship it!"
If it was commercial software and it behaved like that, yes you could
be mighty pissed. I wouldn't get so irate at a set of hackers that do
their best.
Payment for this system is pride, and OK, theirs took a little hit
today. But that's the worst of it
Agreed. My complaints were more the level of slightly frustrated
musings aloud. I calm myself tho, and remind myself how much better it
is now than when I first played with Linux. I am actually happy with
the current state of things in Linux. gnumeric's printing problems have
long been a nusciance for me, but that's why I'm so eager to jump thru
these hoops to get the latest version which is *supposedly* more stable
than the one that is still being officially passed as the most
up-to-date stable version. I'm eager to say goodbye to the old printing
problems in gnumeric, even if I have to say hello to a few new ones.
If I hit a dead end tho, getting the newest, then I have something to
report back to the gnumeric developer who told me my problems would go
away if I simply start using the latest.
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