I'd be happy, if a Windows build could appear on a regular base. I am teaching SPSS and I consider introducing PSPP as an alternative. Most (> 90%) of my students use Windows, hence switching to Linux (which I personally would be willing to do) or switching to Mac (which I would not take into consideration) is not an option.
Thx, Rainer On 29 Jul 2020 at 9:26, Ben Pfaff wrote: > I keep thinking it would be nice to have automatic builds of PSPP > for > Mac OS and for Windows, in the same way that we have them for > GNU/Linux. It would be helpful to our users. > > Regarding Mac, I don't have a Mac OS system, nor do I want to > acquire > one. The Travis system at travis-ci.org can do autobuilds for Mac. > However, there are a couple of obstacles to using it for PSPP from > a > GNU point of view: > * It only builds from Github, so we would have to mirror PSPP to > Github. I don't think the GNU project approves of Github because > of > its proprietary implementation and proprietary Javascript. > * Travis itself has a proprietary implementation and proprietary > Javascript. > > I'd be very pleased if someone could point me to a more-free > alternative. > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 6:39 AM Friedrich Beckmann > <friedrich.beckm...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > > Hi Tony, > > > > I guess you are running into this problem here: > > > > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58537 > > > > So as a workaround you can start psppire from the terminal with > proper language variable settings until I do a new release > > based on gettext 0.20.x. I think another workaround is to > uninstall the languages that you do not need on MacOS. > > > > Regards > > > > Friedrich > > > > > Am 29.07.2020 um 05:04 schrieb Tony Lima <t...@proflima.com>: > > > > > > I´ve installed two different versions. Both launch into > Spanish language. As far as I can tell, my machine is set to US > English (although I do have multiple keyboard languages). Any > suggestions will be greatly appreciated. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Tony Lima > > > > >
