| Gnumeric 1.0.0 aka 'Embrace' is now available |
Dec. 31, 2001
The following announcement was posted to the Gnumeric project website today . . .
After almost 3.5 years of development and months of testing, the teamis happy to release an officially stable version of Gnumeric, GNOMEOffice's spreadsheet.
Let us emphasise _Stable_. In the last 11 months Gnumeric has receivedbug reports from all over the world. Of those there are: - 0 crashes remaining
- 0 data corruptions remaining
- Approximately 30 priority improvements
- Approximately 70 enhancement requests
From one side, our dedicated team of testers (Thanks Chema, Adrian, & JPablo) have beaten this release until their knuckles were bloody. From the other, Morten's unrelenting application of 'Purify' hasensured that there are no known memory leaks either. The bug bountyoffered on the last few releases has yielded only 10 happy drinkers.
Weighing in at ~200,000 lines of code Gnumeric offers well testedimport facilities from several proprietary and free spreadsheetsincluding MS Excel (tm), Lotus 1-2-3 (tm), Applix (tm), Psion, Sylk,XBase, Oleo, and HTML. It can also export to MS Excel (tm) along withseveral open formats such as LaTeX \longtables, HTML, and roff.Rounding out the i/o routines is a highly configurable textimporter/exporter to ensure that data can be transfered smoothly. Newformats can easily be added in a modular fashion via a plug-in.
Gnumeric has 361 spreadsheet functions, 17 analysis tools, and 2solvers. The majority are MS Excel (tm) compatible, but there areseveral (eg number theory and financial derivatives) that are unique toGnumeric. Most MS Excel (tm) functions are supported (298 out of 316).Although a few financial functions with insufficient documentation arestill unimplemented. Contributions are welcome.
Gnumeric's internal architecture has gone through several revisions andshould handle moderately large spreadsheets (~ 1M cells) comfortably,even on older hardware. There plans for future improvements but the1.0.x line should be light and fast for most uses.
Graphs are a relatively recent addition to Gnumeric but there isalready support for MS Excel (tm) import. Using Guppi (via Bonobo) todisplay the graphs has resulted in gorgeous anti-aliased layout. We'vebarely scratched the surface of Guppi's feature set, and there are manyusability improvements to come.
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