Open XML

Pourquoi Gnumeric n’envisage pas d’utiliser pour l'instant ODF comme format natif?

http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.shtml

The Gnumeric team does not envision using the OpenDocument Format as its native format.

The spreadsheet part of ODF, in its current form, is ill defined and has many, many problems.

For example:

(1) there is no meaningful discussion of what functions a spreadsheet should support and what they should do. Without that, there is little point in trying to move a spreadsheet from one program to another;

(2) there is no provision for sharing formulas between cells;

(3) there is no implementation -- writing an ODF exporter consists of reverse-engineering OpenOffice to see what parts of the standard it can handle.

(Note: the preceding comments relate to the spreadsheet part of ODF only; we do not have an informed opinion on ODF for word processing documents, for example.)

We may revisit this decision in the future, should the situation improve. In the meantime, we will strive to maintain a reasonable importer and exporter.

Ce n’est pas vraiment la définition de l’interopérabilité !