Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community

2016-03-03 Thread Alan Mead
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:

Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community

2016-03-03 Thread Frans Houweling
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

Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community

2016-03-03 Thread Alan Mead
On 3/3/2016 11:54 AM, Mark Hancock wrote: > I actually do get the sense that the devs here care about the Windows > experience, but just don't have the resources to test it. It's also > been noted that all the devs use some Linux-based OS exclusively, and > because open source projects naturally ar

Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community

2016-03-03 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 12:54:39PM -0500, Mark Hancock wrote: > It was actually nothing that was said by PSPP devs, but in the GNU > documentation. Specifically, this: > http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Platforms John may be drawing your attention to the difference between Linux (a k

Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community

2016-03-03 Thread Mark Hancock
It was actually nothing that was said by PSPP devs, but in the GNU documentation. Specifically, this: http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Platforms I actually do get the sense that the devs here care about the Windows experience, but just don't have the resources to test it. It's also b

PSPP is not a "linux first" community

2016-03-03 Thread John Darrington
On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 01:43:31AM -0500, Mark Hancock wrote: I know this is a Linux-first community, I am disappointed that you think this. It is a common misconception which we have tried hard to dispell. It is true that PSPP *can* run on the same computer which might also run the

Re: Warning on unreleased versions.

2016-03-03 Thread Friedrich Beckmann
> Am 02.03.2016 um 22:53 schrieb Harry Thijssen : > > The MSWindows installer displays a readme file on the screen during > installation. > > The second line in this readme box states: > > This is a new MSWindows build of the PSPP master branch as of the date this > binary was built and incl