From: Jon Trowbridge <trow@gnu.org> To: lwn@lwn.net Subject: Guppi 0.40.0 Released: Adds Graphing Capability to Gnumeric Date: 18 Oct 2001 23:32:57 -0400 Your Guppi development team is pleased to announce the release of Guppi 0.40.0, code name "Wild Yipes of Joy Were Heard in Stockholm". Guppi is a GNOME-based framework for graphing and interactive data analysis. A lot has happened since our last release five months ago: - This is the first version of Guppi to support graphs "out of the box" in production builds of Gnumeric. - We've also cleaned house. Lots of experimental or not-fully-realized features have been stripped out, and substantial chunks of the code have been refactored. There are our flimsy justifications for jumping to a new, rounder, happier version number. Thanks to Jody Goldberg, Rob Browning, Adrian Custer, Chris Lyttle, and all of the other Friends Of Guppi who have helped with this release. * Availability You can get the Guppi 0.40.0 tarball here: http://download.gnome.org/GNOME/stable/sources/Guppi RPMs and debs will hopefully be available soon. * Information Visit http://www.gnome.org/projects/guppi to learn more about Guppi. * Prerequisites Guppi basically requires a complete and fairly up-to-date GNOME installation, such as Ximian GNOME. You will need to have (among other things) - bonobo 1.0.8 - gnome-print 0.28 - some version of guile (1.3 through 1.6) installed. To use Guppi to insert graphs into your Gnumeric spreadsheets, you need to have Gnumeric 0.72 (or better) with Bonobo support installed before compiling Guppi. * Caveats The simple stand-alone application that was distributed with previous versions of Guppi has been deprecated. It was never very good or very featureful. It will be totally re-written and will return after we port to GNOME 2.0. It is worth noting that Guppi is still EXPERIMENTAL software, and support for graphs in Gnumeric is still VERY INCOMPLETE. Feedback and bug reports are always welcome, but you don't need to tell us that lots of features are missing: We already know that.