[libreoffice-users] Re: Corrupted Calc Display of Excel File

Thanks.  That's a good explanation.  Doesn't make sense that the unitiated  
(like me, though I've been using computers for years) are led to download  
4.2 with a serious flaw.



On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 16:41:55 -0500, Pedro [via Document Foundation Mail  
Archive] <ml-node+s969070n4096361h77@n3.nabble.com> wrote:

> Hi ksc
> > ksc wrote
> > I've installed 4.1.4 on the new computer and it works.  Any idea why   
> > this would occur?Makes no sense that an immediately newer version would  
> > be so fundamentallycorrupted.
> The main reason is that the Calc spreadsheet had a major code rewrite  
> which enabled several enhancements including GPU >calculations (when  
> activated and when the GPU is compatible)
> LibreOffice 4.2.0.4 (notice the zero after 4.2) is the first release in  
> a new branch (the 4.2 branch). For Windows users usually a 4.2 >version  
> is always better than a 4.1...
> However LibreOffice is a multi-platform software and since most  
> developers are on Linux it follows a Linux logic  
> (https://>wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan). Therefore an x.x.0  
> release (and in fact any release before x.x.4) is considered  
> > potentially buggy and not ready for production.
> Therefore even if LO 4.2 is announced everywhere on the LO site, in fact  
> it is not recommended for general use or in other words >"is targeted  
> for early adopters and private power users" (as stated in the not so  
> evident Release Notes page  
> http://>www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/)
> Bottomline: stick with the trusted 4.1 branch (4.1.5 should be out  
> within the next days) or keep 4.2 if you can live with the bugs (and  
> > report them at  
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=LibreOffice ) so that  
> they are eventually fixed.
> Hope this helps...
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