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: 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

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

Re: Windows download link on gnu.org

2015-12-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 04:38:27PM -0600, Alan Mead wrote: > On 12/16/2015 3:59 PM, Harry Thijssen wrote: > > > > https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/get.html > > > > And on that page, there's a series of bullets for various operating > > systems, including Windows but Windows has no clic

Re: Windows download link on gnu.org

2015-12-16 Thread Alan Mead
On 12/16/2015 3:59 PM, Harry Thijssen wrote: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/get.html > > And on that page, there's a series of bullets for various operating > systems, including Windows but Windows has no clickable link (whereas > the others all do have clickable links). Why

Re: Windows download link on gnu.org

2015-12-16 Thread Harry Thijssen
Hi Alan I was just refreshing my Windows copy of PSPP and I was reflecting on > the trouble that Windows users have in downloading and I think some > simple changes to the gnu.org download page could make it a lot easier > on them. > > I always go to the gnu.org page: > > https://www.gnu.org/softw