Oh BTW. When we've got 0.4.0 docs...I will recreate them for the site. Ben Pfaff wrote:
>PSPP 0.4.0 release candidate 1 is available from: > http://xenon.stanford.edu/~blp/pspp-0.4.0rc1.tar.gz > >If no one reports anything worth fixing within the next few days, >I'll rename this as 0.4.0, upload it to alpha.gnu.org, and send >up release announcements to the usual places. > >P.C.J.G. Brunier: Can you grab the NEWS file and make sure that >the website has it? I made a few updates tonight. Thanks! > >Changes from 0.3.0 to 0.4.0: > > New build dependencies: > > * The GNU Scientific Library (libgsl), version 1.6 or later. > > * The GNU multiprecision arithmetic library (libgmp). > > * libplot from GNU plotutils is optional. Without it, the new > graphing features will not work. If you do not have it > installed, you must run `configure' with --without-libplot. > > Newly implemented commands and statistical features: > > * EXAMINE, including its graphing features. > > * FREQUENCIES now supports percentiles. > > * ONEWAY. > > * PERMISSIONS. > > * SHOW. > > * SORT CASES now sorts stably, that is, two cases with equal sort > criteria will be in the same relative order before and after the > sort. > > * T-TEST (re-written). > > * DATE and USE. These commands are parsed but otherwise ignored, > to enhance compatibility with certain command files that invoke > them unnecessarily. > > * VARIABLE WIDTH, VARIABLE ALIGNMENT, and VARIABLE LEVEL. These > currently have no effect on PSPP output, but their values are > written to and read from system files and thus may affect > third-party software. > > * SET EPOCH implemented. > > * DATA LIST FREE and DATA LIST LIST now support arbitrary field > delimiters. > > * FILE HANDLE now supports custom tab widths. > > Long variable names (and other identifiers) are now supported. Up > to the first 64 bytes of each identifier is significant. PSPP now > reads and writes system files compatible with SPSS version 12. > > New --algorithm and --syntax command line options allow > SPSS-compatible or enhanced modes to be selected. > > Support for transformation expressions has been rewritten and > significantly improved. Refer to the manual for details. > > Calculation of moments (mean, standard deviation, kurtosis, > skewness) has been rewritten and should now be more accurate. In > --algorithm=enhanced mode moments may be more accurate than SPSS in > some cases. > > Numerous bugs have been fixed, too many to mention here. Many new > tests have been added, leading to the discovery and fixing of many > of these bugs. > > The ASCII output driver can now squeeze multiple blank lines into > single blank lines. > > Much of the code has been rewritten and refactored. It is now much > cleaner. > > The FILE TYPE and REPEATING DATA commands have been disabled for > this release because their implementations were deemed too buggy to > be useful. They will be fixed and replaced in a future release. > > New pspp-mode for Emacs (in pspp-mode.el). > > Added rudimentary command-line completion for interactive input. > > lib/julcal and lib/dcdflib are no longer used, so they have been > removed. > > For developers, the build system now requires Autoconf 2.58 and > Automake 1.7. The included gettext has been updated to version > 0.12.1. > > -- P.C.J.G. Brunier Email: patrick at brunier dot nl WWW: http://www.brunier.nl -------------------------------- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/596468C6 Key fingerprint = 5667 977F E321 AA32 D9EB 2CF8 0CF6 28F2 5964 68C6
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