Re: It is a problem that Windows PSPPIRE/PSPP is pretty wonky

2015-01-11 Thread Alan Mead
Harry, This is a great addition! Also great that you and John have vanquished the copy error! -Alan On 1/11/2015 8:00 AM, Harry Thijssen wrote: > With this additional build, it should be possible for skilled users to: > - Do some bug hunting if they find a strange/wrong behavior. > - Report a b

Re: Re: It is a problem that Windows PSPPIRE/PSPP is pretty wonky

2015-01-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 03:00:07PM +0100, Harry Thijssen wrote: > Hello list > > > > I'm not sure that Windows testers would help. Testers provide a useful > > service--bug reports--but we already have Windows bug reports that we > > are not able to easily solve. Really what we need is a develo

Re: Re: It is a problem that Windows PSPPIRE/PSPP is pretty wonky

2015-01-11 Thread Harry Thijssen
Hello list > I'm not sure that Windows testers would help. Testers provide a useful > service--bug reports--but we already have Windows bug reports that we > are not able to easily solve. Really what we need is a developer, who > can not just report bugs but actually fix them. > For the more

Re: It is a problem that Windows PSPPIRE/PSPP is pretty wonky

2014-12-31 Thread Alan Mead
No need to apologize. I don't think I made this point and your email catalyzed me to do so, for which I am grateful. As Ben says, I think resolution requires that a Windows developer takes an interest in PSPP, because the problems are specific to Windows. I don't know about PSPPIRE but PSPP is wr

Re: It is a problem that Windows PSPPIRE/PSPP is pretty wonky

2014-12-31 Thread Ben Pfaff
I'm not sure that Windows testers would help. Testers provide a useful service--bug reports--but we already have Windows bug reports that we are not able to easily solve. Really what we need is a developer, who can not just report bugs but actually fix them. On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 06:34:14PM +0

Re: It is a problem that Windows PSPPIRE/PSPP is pretty wonky

2014-12-31 Thread MichaƂ Dubrawski
Alan, I understand your point now. Sorry for misunderstanding. I agree with you but same as you I don't see any solution yet. If there were a active PSPP developer who uses Windows this situation would probably look different. I guess it would be hard to find such new developer to join the team, b

Re: It is a problem that Windows PSPPIRE/PSPP is pretty wonky

2014-12-31 Thread Ben Pfaff
All this rings true. Thanks for laying it out so clearly. I think that the only real solution is for a Windows developer to come forward to join the PSPP development team. I don't know where to find one, though. I don't use Windows myself, and few of my coworkers use it (they are almost exclusi