Program: Gnumeric
License: GNU General Public License
Description: The goal of Gnumeric is to be the best possible spreadsheet. We are not attempting to clone existing applications. However, Gnumeric can read files saved with other spreadsheets and we offer a customizable feel that attempts to minimize the costs of transition.
Gnumeric would be a nice addition. Together with AbiWord it would meet most of the office needs of the average user, without the extremely large and occasionally cumbersome OpenOffice install. I like OpenOffice and use it daily, but Gnumeric is a lot faster and lighter-weight.
I took a look at Gnumeric when I was doing GnuCash and the problem is the fact that the Gnumeric folks do not maintain a windows package (or in fact packages for any systems at all). There are packages here and there of older versions but they are very rarely up to date and often not very well quality-controlled. For instance there is not (and never has been as far as I can tell) a Windows package available for the current stable version of Gnumeric, only trunk builds of the unstable tree with various scary "debug" tags in many of them.. probably not suitable for general consumption.
In order to have Gnumeric for Windows portablized the maintainer would have to compile, package and then portably wrap the resulting windows package. That is quite a bit of work, and probably outside the scope of many of our packagers' abilities, resources and/or time.
formerly rayven01