Gnumeric Developers Interviewed, And V1.2 Previewed

Suresh Chandra Das writes "Gnumeric 1.2 is to be released on the 8th of September, and we have a preview of what is coming up ( mirrored here). Also, linmagau.org is running an interview with two of Gnumeric's lead developers -- Jody Goldberg and Andreas L. Guelzow."

Like the sound of this...

[BrokenHalo]

Since Gnumeric is so very functional and damn quick to load. But as I often have to integrate spreadsheets and charts with WP documents (in scientific reports), I fear I'm stuck with OpenOffice for a while.

Yes, I know LaTeX can handle it, but I haven't had the time to break that learning curve.

OASIS?

[fault0]

Are the gnumeric developers ever going to switch to the OASIS format soon? (like the koffice developers recently started doing)

Re:OASIS?

[Jody Goldberg]

We'll support it, but will not adopt it as the native format. Frankly I'd rather use xls than the OASIS xml. I've got a few substantive issues with the core structure of the spreadsheet format as proposed by OpenCalc.

Gnumeric on Mac OSX.

[agentk]

Gnumeric seems to work ok on OSX [zerohour.net]. You need to install an X11 Server and Fink [sf.net], and then, in a Terminal: sudo fink install gnumeric (and wait a long time) or sudo apt-get install gnumeric.

An Aqua or Carbon port would be cool though.

If more people used wxWindows [wxwindows.org], then (a) porting to Windows and Mac would be really easy, and (b) wxWindows would continue to improve as people contributed.