Re: Statically linked binaries (was re: PSPP on CentOS 6)

2016-03-04 Thread John Darrington
On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 11:57:09AM -0600, Alan Mead wrote: I installed Fedora 23 on an older machine, so I'll be on the bleeding edge (or close to it). I haven't gotten around to trying to make the latest PSPP, but there's a package for 0.8.5. I use some Linux softwa

Statically linked binaries (was re: PSPP on CentOS 6)

2016-03-04 Thread Alan Mead
On 2/25/2016 11:39 PM, John Darrington wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 03:41:46PM -0600, Alan Mead wrote: > > This succeeded and in some quick testing psppire seems to work. > Thanks! Is there any hope for more recent versions? > > On CentOS 6 I'm afraid not. > > We could

Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community

2016-03-04 Thread Alan Mead
On 3/4/2016 9:49 AM, John Darrington wrote: > Well it certainly is true that fixing issues in GNU/Linux has a higher > priority than fixing Windows issues. But that does not make PSPP a linux > first project. If there is a "pecking order" it is something like this: > > 1: GNU > 2: Other Free OSes

Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community

2016-03-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 06:38:55PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 08:09:00AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > This is somewhat theoretical, though. I do not know any PSPP users or > developers who run GNU on Hurd. > > Habitually, I don't. But I do test it from time

Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community

2016-03-04 Thread John Darrington
On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 08:09:00AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: This is somewhat theoretical, though. I do not know any PSPP users or developers who run GNU on Hurd. Habitually, I don't. But I do test it from time-to-time to make sure that it works ok. J' -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send

Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community

2016-03-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 04:49:00PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 12:32:20PM -0600, Alan Mead wrote: > 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

Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community

2016-03-04 Thread John Darrington
On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 12:32:20PM -0600, Alan Mead wrote: 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 s

Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community

2016-03-04 Thread Friedrich Beckmann
Hi Frans, > Am 03.03.2016 um 21:24 schrieb Frans Houweling : > As a (daytime) Windows user I apologize for (…) (to Friedrich) our lack of > sense of humour. Never mind. As a full time human being I apologize to us for our wars, injustice, abuse and hunger. If we could meet in a non-virtual pla