I still think a lot of this can be avoided through better and clearer
messaging when downloading the software, but it is also a good idea to have
a message like this in the output, one time.
The suggested text had a few grammatical errors, though, so here are some
fixes:
This is a development version of PSPP. Please be aware of the
likely possibility that it will contain more bugs than a PSPP release.
If you encounter bugs, please consider reporting them to the PSPP
developers at bug-gnu-p...@gnu.org, to enable them to be fixed.
I would also recommend replacing "please consider reporting them to..."
with "please report them to..."
Mark
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Alan Mead <ame...@alanmead.org> wrote:
> On 2/29/2016 10:01 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > I don't see why the regression tests would break. For one thing, we
> > don't have regression tests for the GUI, which seems to be mostly what
> > we're talking about. Second, it would not be hard to disable this
> > message for the regression tests (e.g. with --testing-mode) or filter
> > it out for the tests.
>
> Good! I think the standard GNU paragraph should be printed above it:
>
> PSPP is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
> under certain
> conditions; refer to "Help > About > License" to see the conditions.
> There is
> ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for PSPP; refer to "Help > About > License" for
> details.
> GNU pspp 0.8.5 (Fri Feb 26 17:51:26 UTC 2016).
>
> -Alan
>
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