It seems that a bird's eye view of the problem is: - many pspp *windows users* - pspp windows users will have a *hard time building pspp from source* - for those users, the *source distributions* are (in many ways) *irrelevant* - for those users, the only (?) way to go is a *windows installer*
I will be *happy to help* improving windows user installations - I am an experienced linux developer - how can I help? On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 at 00:17, someone <maffyd...@aol.com> wrote: > John, > > Thanks for your comments. > > As a, i guess, not expert user, I would look at the main page > https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/ > > and I see the top line of the PSPP part has these options > > > - PSPP Home <https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/> > - Download <https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/get.html> > - Quick Tour <https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/tour.html> > - FAQ <https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/faq.html> > - Doc <https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/> > - > > > > I would assume that the "Download" part is where I go to download the > "official" version. But that isn't right? > > > "Right at the top of this page, there is a link which tells you the > various ways to get GNU software (including PSPP)." > I'm not really clear on this. Where are you pointing? > > > "Also, note, the sentence "We do not distribute precompiled binaries for > PSPP". Any binaries that you download (from anywhere) are not "official" > in any sense of the word." > Well, on the 'get' page, this sentence ("We do not distribute ..." is > right below "GNU Linux". > Again, I'm not an expert user, so I kind of assumed that didn't apply to > Windows. I thought Linux was another OS, so this just applied to GNU Linux. > > And I guess I'm kind of confused. At the lower part of the main page is > the section "Downloading PSPP" which says > "As with most GNU software, PSPP can be found on the main GNU ftp server: > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/ ..." > I don't understand what "We do not distribute precompiled binaries ..." > What is a precompiled binary, and what is being distributed on the GNU ftp > server? I guess that's an -un-compiled binary? > > > Could I make some suggestions? > > On the get page, move this to just above "Binaries" > "We do not distribute precompiled binaries of PSPP. Computers come with so > many different archtectures, kernels, operating systems that it would not > be feasible for us to do so. " > and add something like, > "However, a number of people have kindly compiled PSPP into various > operating systems. Their compiled versions are described below. > > and add the same two sentences to the main page, in the download PSPP > section, instead of "There are some additional ways you can download or > otherwise obtain PSPP." > > > Thanks > > Gene > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> > To: someone <maffyd...@aol.com> > Cc: tuna.is.good.for....@gmail.com <tuna.is.good.for....@gmail.com>; > public....@gmail.com <public....@gmail.com>; pspp-users@gnu.org < > pspp-users@gnu.org> > Sent: Wed, Jun 15, 2022 12:50 am > Subject: Re: pspp-1.6.0 released, 1.6 windows > > The "official" download page is and always has been > https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pspp > > The "get PSPP" page https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/get.html which > you mentioned provides unofficial hints about other possible download > possibilities. > > Right at the top of this page, there is a link which tells you the various > ways to get GNU software (including PSPP). > > Also, note, the sentence "We do not distribute precompiled binaries for > PSPP". Any binaries that you download (from anywhere) are not "official" in > any sense of the word. > > To summarize: > > 1. https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pspp is the official download page. > 2. https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/get.html provides information which > we hope will be useful for you. > > J' > > > > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 04:27:10AM +0000, someone wrote: > Hi all > In my website, https://sites.google.com/site/gsocialchange/statsoft and > in my report https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4105959I'd > like to list the most recent version on the 'official' or main download > page http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/get.html > I could list the nightly download page, but I'm much prefer to list > the main download page, especially since the main download page says "The > windows installers for nightly builds are untested nightly builds." > Unless this wording could change? > thanks > gene >
