In the news, I see that the latest WSL release supports graphical applications.
On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 8:12 AM Marshall DeBerry <mmdebe...@charter.net> wrote: > > As a follow up, I seem to recall that Microsoft will be releasing some sort > of graphics capability to WSL in their next release of that product, which is > supposed to occur probably sometime later this year. There are some current > hacks to get some degree of graphics to work in WSL, but probably best to > wait to see what Microsoft will be releasing. > > > > Marshall > > > > From: Pspp-users <pspp-users-bounces+mmdeberry=charter....@gnu.org> On Behalf > Of Marshall DeBerry > Sent: Thursday, September 2, 2021 11:04 AM > To: 'Ben Pfaff' <b...@cs.stanford.edu>; 'Quandt, Markus' > <markus.qua...@gesis.org> > Cc: 'pspp-users' <pspp-users@gnu.org> > Subject: RE: PSPPP for windows > > > > So, running Windows 10 with latest updates, running the Windows Terminal app > as Administrator, executing wsl with Fedora 34 as the Linux OS installed > and updated, executing a sudo dnf install pspp, I am able to bring up pspp > in command mode. Trying to execute psppire results in the following error > messages: “Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused” and > “(psppire:185): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:55:49.878: cannot open display: “ > > > > That’s a far as I’ve gotten so far. It does look like the command mode will > work under WSL though. > > > > Marshall > > > > > > > > From: Pspp-users <pspp-users-bounces+mmdeberry=charter....@gnu.org> On Behalf > Of Ben Pfaff > Sent: Thursday, September 2, 2021 2:27 AM > To: Quandt, Markus <markus.qua...@gesis.org> > Cc: pspp-users <pspp-users@gnu.org> > Subject: Re: PSPPP for windows > > > > I believe that Windows can run GNU/Linux software now, via WSL. Has anyone > tried this with PSPP? > > > > On Wed, Sep 1, 2021, 11:12 PM Quandt, Markus <markus.qua...@gesis.org> wrote: > > Al, everyone - just to mention again that I find it really exciting that this > exchange is opening up the option of having ready-made Windows binaries > again. That would be really great. > > And yes, I agree with the reasoning about the Windows 10 binaries being what > is really needed, by 90+ % of the potential users running *any* Windows > version. If that is a consideration at all, between those two I would even > focus the effort on the x64 version, to make it more future-proof, as x32 > support seems to start fading away? > > And a huge "thank you" to Harry for the long-time work with the existing > Windows binaries. > > Markus > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Pspp-users <pspp-users-bounces+markus.quandt=gesis....@gnu.org> Im > Auftrag von ajk-eis > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 2. September 2021 03:20 > An: pspp-users@gnu.org > Betreff: Re: PSPPP for windows > > Harry - I find your reasoning noble but do think that when less fortunate are > running such old systems (as they no doubt are) they probably would not be > updating frequently as long as the installation "works". IOW an older build > (your last?) is probably sufficient. > > Another group are the academic students and classes who normally would have > up to date systems be it Windows or Apple (WINE). They would benefit from > the latest builds and IMHO the x86 and x64 Windows builds would be entirely > sufficient. > > I will probably contact you off group in the next few days if you are > comfortable with that. > > Al > > On 01.09.2021 09:59, Harry Thijssen wrote: > > reply to several posts in this forum > > > > Older versions of PSPP for MSwindows are still available on: > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/pspp4windows/files/ > > <https://sourceforge.net/projects/pspp4windows/files/> > > I have no intention to remove these versions so I guess they will be > > available for a long time. However as pointed out I won't be building > > new builds. So the published builds are more and more outdated. > > > > The reason that there are no new builds is that there is a change in > > the PSPP sources witch makes it necessary to refactoring the > > procedures to build the MSWindows binary. As I wanted to retire from > > the project anyhow it was the natural time to stop with publishing my > > builds. > > > > The decision which MSWindows version to support is off course to the > > volunteer who offers his/her spare time to this work. Or the company > > who pays for it. > > For me it was very important to support less fortunate people. There > > are large parts of the world where people can not afford the newest > > hardware. Certainly not on schools for education of pupils. There are > > lots of computers who have not the power to run a newer version as > > MSWindows XP, and to my knowledge some of them run PSPP to teach > > pupils the basics of statistics. > > > > To everybody, feel free to create new MSWindows builds. My procedures > > are published so you can take them and use them to get ideas how it > > can be done. The latest release is downloaded more as 200.000 times > > from sourceforge alone, so there is a demand. > > > > Stay safe > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
