My experience has been that the PSPP team is welcoming, so I don't think "cathedral model" is fair. But I also don't think you need to be apologetic about being a Windows user or a user. PSPP needs users and Windows users to test and report bugs.
-Alan On 3/3/2016 2:24 PM, Frans Houweling wrote: > If PSPP could expose a public API then developers on any platform > would be encouraged to build little or big applications on top of it. > Imitating SPSS to the point of copying its cathedral model seems like > excessive zeal to me. It also exposes the developer team to this type > of discussions and recriminations. > As a (daytime) Windows user I apologize for our presumption, our lack > of participation and (to Friedrich) our lack of sense of humour. > frans > -- Alan D. Mead, Ph.D. President, Talent Algorithms Inc. science + technology = better workers +815.588.3846 (Office) +267.334.4143 (Mobile) http://www.alanmead.org I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe... functions on fire in a copy of Orion. I watched C-Sharp glitter in the dark near a programmable gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like Ruby... on... Rails... Time for Pi. --"The Register" user Alister, applying the famous "Blade Runner" speech to software development _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
