RE: Intention to release 0.99.3 this Friday.

From: Sanity in Anarchy (sanity@dog.com)
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 15:46:02 GMT

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    >Yes there will be bugs in 1.0. However no software is bug free and we
    >would like to get 1.0 out of the way so we can address the major changes
    >we'll need to make to handle new features like Tables, footnotes,
    >embedding, better font and glyph handling and equations.

    I personally want to make sure that embedding is handled well. I would hate
    to see Microsoft Excel documents embedded as Excel documents, unless there's a
    real advantage over Gnumeric. Rather, when saving as AbiWord, Gnumeric format
    should be used for embedded spreadsheets, even if the source was Excel. And
    when saving as MS Word, Excel sheets should be used, unless Microsoft has
    gotten smart and supported Gnumeric.

    If you use some shared library from MS Office to do OLE, there's really no
    difference between that and the MS Word way of doing things. Remember that no
    matter where it comes from, bad code is still bad code.

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