Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 21:44:43 -0500 From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx> To: gnome-list@gnome.org, gnome-announce-list@gnome.org, gnu@gnu.org, Subject: ANNOUNCE: Gnumeric 0.2 GNOME spreadsheet. ANNOUNCING Gnumeric version 0.2 (The Bouncing Bonobo release) The Gnumeric spreadhseet is part of the GNOME (http://www.gnome.org) desktop environment: a project to create a user-friendly free desktop environment. As every other component of GNOME, Gnumeric is free software, and has been designed to be a user-friendly spreadsheet. Gnumeric is a new foundation for free spreadsheet development: it has a solid code base and has been designed to compete in the look and feel area with most commercial spreadsheet offerings. With this new foundation of spreadsheet code, many exciting things can be done that were only a dream in the past. Special attention has been payed in the usability area: various useful features found on other spreadsheet have been included. Getting Gnumeric: You can get Gnumeric from the GNOME ftp site: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources Screenshots: Various screenshots of Gnumeric are available in http://www.gnome.org/gnumeric/screenshots Library requirements: To compile Gnumeric you need the following libraries installed on your system: - gnome-libs 0.30 (gnome-libs-0.30.tar.gz) The GNOME libraries in turn require: - ORBit 0.3.0. - Berkley DB. - gnome-xml library (libxml-0.30.tar.gz) Mailing lists: A Gnumeric mailing list has been created, to subscribe send a mail to: gnumeric-list-request@gnome.org. Web page: To look at the status of Gnumeric as well as to gather more information about the development and future plans of Gnumeric, check http://www.gnome.org/gnumeric Reporting bugs: Use gnumeric-list@gnome.org to report bugs on Gnumeric. -- To unsubscribe: mail gnome-announce-list-request@gnome.org with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.