On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 11:46 AM John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 11:25:35AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > I haven't been too active on the PSPP mailing lists lately. It feels like > time to update the folks here about what I've been doing. I've continued > my > work on understanding SPSS output file formats, in two areas. > > First, I've spent some time on understanding graphs and charts in .spv > files. These are a really complicated format, and I've made some limited > progress on it. It will take a lot more effort. > > More recently, I've spent considerable time understanding the format of > .spo files. These are nontrivial, but not nearly as complicated as .spv > files (far fewer subformats, for one thing). I am making progress. > > > That's good to hear. (However, I don't know what are the respective > purposes of .spo and .spv files are and how those purposes differ).
The .spo file format is obsolete and historical. I'm working on it for completeness' sake and because I enjoy figuring out file formats. The .spv file format is the one that SPSS currently uses. > Is it time to release the next version of PSPP? Does anyone know of > current > instabilities that would bar release for the moment? > > It has become apparent that some of my fixes to those recent fuzzing > bugs are imperfect and need to be rethought. I will try to do that > within the next week or two. > > But yes, looking at NEWS, I see that a lot of things have happened since > the last release and we need to think about making a new one. OK. It would be nice to hear from you when you think that the stability is high enough again, so that we can do a release then.
