Done P.C.J.G. Brunier wrote:
>Hey Ben, > >Congrats to you and the rest of the team with the new release. The info >you mailed should be put on the website. >All other things like regenerating the manual will be done today, and >will be put online. > >- Patrick > >Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > >>PSPP 0.4.0 is now available on ftp.gnu.org. You may download it via >> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/pspp/pspp-0.4.0.tar.gz >>It should propagate to mirrors over the next few days. >> >>You may validate it by checking the release against my public key, >>which is available in the Debian keyring and elsewhere. The same >>key is used to sign this announcement. >> >>What is PSPP? >>============= >> >>PSPP is a program for statistical analysis of sampled data. It >>interprets commands in the SPSS language and produces tabular output >>in ASCII, PostScript, or HTML format. >> >>PSPP development is ongoing. It already supports a large subset of >>SPSS's transformation language. Its statistical procedure support is >>currently limited, but growing. >> >>Source code for the latest release of PSPP is available at >>ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/pspp/. Older versions may be obtained from >>ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/. Development sources are available from >>CVS at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/pspp >> >>Questions and comments regarding PSPP can be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>PSPP bug reports may be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or filed in the >>bug-tracking system at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=pspp >>according to your preference. >> >>Release Notes >>============= >> >>A few system-specific issues have been noted. These may be PSPP bugs >>or system bugs; we have not yet been able to track them down precisely: >> >> * On Solaris, one or more tests may fail `make check'. We have >> only seen this reported on Solaris 9 with GCC 3.4.2. Our >> reporter says that turning off optimization (with -O0) at least >> masked the symptoms. >> >> * On Mac OS X, GCC 4.0.0 build 4061 has been observed to cause >> some tests to fail. Later builds should work fine. >> >>Finally, a few extra notes: >> >> * The Sun WorkShop compiler will not work out of the box in this >> release. Use GCC instead. We will fix this for the next >> release. >> >> * GCC 4.x reports an inordinate number of warnings for this >> release. You may ignore these for now. We will fix these for >> the next release. >> >>News >>==== >> >>Changes from 0.3.0 to 0.4.0: >> >> Changes in build dependencies: >> >> * The GNU Scientific Library (libgsl), version 1.6 or later, is >> now required. >> >> * 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. >> >> * libgmp2 is no longer a dependency. >> >> 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. >> >> Some reports state that Texinfo 4.8, the latest version, may be >> necessary to successfully format the documentation on some systems. >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >pspp-dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >pspp-dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev > > -- 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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