Many thanks to Ben and Jason for the conference call yesterday. It was great to speak to both of you. Here are the things which I took away from the conversation:
GUI === So it seems that the next release will feature the GUI. Thinking about it last night, I'm of the opinion that, in its first public appearance, it should favour stability rather than features. So I propose that it be released as a "System/Portable file editor". Getting it to actually run procedures is another ball game, which can start after the next release. On this basis, I think that the end of 2006 is a reasonable release date to aim for. Marketing ========= The web site should be rewritten to be a bit more hard hitting. It should emphasise the things that PSPP does well. Eg: Unlimited cases and variables, very fast processing, regression, anova, long string lengths, absence of time bombs etc. Output Subsystem ================ Intermediate format such as HDLF for output would be nice. It would be essential if the GUI is to have interactive "pivot tables". Caching/Saving of Models ======================== This would make the syntax a lot more powerful (and faster) if done properly. RAD framework ============= Some kind of framework to make development easier for statisticians who know only a modicum of programming. As I see it there are three aspects to this: 1. Something to build the syntax parser. I suppose q2c was supposed to do that, but we're all aware of it's limitations. 2. Something to build the output tables. A glade type application springs to mind. But it would be a lot of work to do. 3. An easy way to access the raw data, without being exposed to the internals of casefiles etc. J' -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://pgp.mit.edu or any PGP keyserver for public key.
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