Re: PSPP and ADA compliance

2015-12-17 Thread Richard Lee Rogers
Thanks. SPSS now works in JAWS, which satisfies our requirement. R. Richard Lee Rogers Department of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences Youngstown State University Phone: 330-941-3543 From: Charles Johnson Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 2:14 PM To: A

saving factor scores?

2015-12-17 Thread Matej Kovacic
Hi, > I hope not to bother with this mail. He's able to get answers to this > question; > when it is estimated that saving factor scores will be implemented in PSPP? I don't know, but maybe the best would be to ask on a PSPP mailing list. Regards, Matej

Re: PSPP and ADA compliance

2015-12-17 Thread John Darrington
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 03:46:58PM +, Richard Lee Rogers wrote: Greetings. We are interested in knowing if PSPP is compliant with the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Thanks. Not being familiar with that legislation I cannot say. If you can summarise briefly what the r

RE: PSPP and ADA compliance

2015-12-17 Thread Charles Johnson
Sure, it was just rhetoric. However, some GNU applications have a concern to improve the accessibility and PSPP can benefit from a developer who wants to work at it. PSPP is not required by law, but may be useful and accessible if a volunteer developer working on it. Cheers CJT Subject: Re: P

Re: Windows download link on gnu.org

2015-12-17 Thread Alan Mead
On 12/17/2015 10:55 AM, Harry Thijssen wrote > I guess users prefer a newer build with updated translations bugfixes > and new features. For example the latest release candidate contains a > Graph section in the GUI. > The drawback is that they will also encounter new bugs. I certainly appreciate

Re: Re: Windows download link on gnu.org

2015-12-17 Thread Harry Thijssen
> > > These are all good points. But regarding John's comment about official > releases vs. builds of more recent versions, the latest release is > 0.8.5. Should we label the Windows downloads as "stable release" and > "latest version (newest features, but possibly also bugs)" or something > like

Re: PSPP and ADA compliance

2015-12-17 Thread Alan Mead
I think the FSF lawyers would refer everyone to the GPL and it's waivers of suitability. How would an application like PSPP be compliant or non-compliant with ADA? This website: http://www.interactiveaccessibility.com/services/ada-compliance (which surely isn't legal advice) suggests that ADA d

RE: PSPP and ADA compliance

2015-12-17 Thread Charles Johnson
I think that's something you have to see the FSF's lawyers, however, if you mean to have accessibility options could resort to other applications depending on the operating system you use. This element can also be considered as an improvement to present as topic in the google summer of code. (

Re: Windows download link on gnu.org

2015-12-17 Thread Alan Mead
On 12/17/2015 5:16 AM, Harry Thijssen wrote: > > > I wonder if we'd have fewer Windows complaints if it weren't the first > platform to get new versions... Of course, that also means that > they're > first to get new fixes... > > > Partially I guess. There are several reasons. > Fi

PSPP and ADA compliance

2015-12-17 Thread Richard Lee Rogers
Greetings. We are interested in knowing if PSPP is compliant with the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Thanks. R. Richard Lee Rogers Department of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences Youngstown State University Phone: 330-941-3543

Re: Windows download link on gnu.org

2015-12-17 Thread Alan Mead
Thambu, You should post questions like this with a new subject, rather than replying to a completely different topic. I don't see a way to avoid syntax, but it's not that hard and I encourage you to to become comfortable with syntax. -Alan On 12/17/2015 7:09 AM, Thambu David wrote: > > Dear All

Re: Windows download link on gnu.org

2015-12-17 Thread John Darrington
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 03:02:00AM -0600, Alan Mead wrote: On 12/16/2015 7:45 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Just now, I did some major revisions to the "download" page. I think > it will be easier for users. Any comments? I agree; seems to me like it will be much easier fo

Re: Windows download link on gnu.org

2015-12-17 Thread Thambu David
Dear All Is it possible to merge two PSPP files using the drop down menu? I am not v comfortable suing syntax? regards Thambu ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users

Re: Windows download link on gnu.org

2015-12-17 Thread Harry Thijssen
> > > I wonder if we'd have fewer Windows complaints if it weren't the first > platform to get new versions... Of course, that also means that they're > first to get new fixes... > Partially I guess. There are several reasons. First of all there is a large MSWindows PSPP user base. You can find t

Re: Windows download link on gnu.org

2015-12-17 Thread Alan Mead
On 12/17/2015 4:16 AM, Friedrich Beckmann wrote: > At least on debian the versions are „frozen“ with a stable > distribution. The suggested way to update to a new version would be to > make a back port. But that induces some effort. Ubuntu and all > derivates will automatically take the packages fr

Re: Windows download link on gnu.org

2015-12-17 Thread Friedrich Beckmann
Hi Alan, on MacOS Jeremy has the pspp (0.8.5) and the pspp-devel (updated sometimes) versions. But that requires macports which requires Xcode to install. Friedrich Am 17.12.2015 um 10:02 schrieb Alan Mead : > > On 12/16/2015 7:45 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> Just now, I did some major revisions

Re: Windows download link on gnu.org

2015-12-17 Thread Alan Mead
On 12/16/2015 7:45 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Just now, I did some major revisions to the "download" page. I think > it will be easier for users. Any comments? I agree; seems to me like it will be much easier for new users to find PSPP. The links you've added make it easy to compare PSPP versions a