Oh yes, I assumed that you want to port the pspp core and not the gui. But wouldn’t it be possible to keep the existing gui and just link to the „core“? I mean we already have the pspp library. Couldn’t that just be replaced by your rust version?
You already have 37000 lines????? Sounds more than „Oh I think I could port it to Rust so I made like 50 lines of code just to see how it could work…" > Am 13.06.2025 um 20:21 schrieb Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu>: > > The GUI bugs are a different category, for sure. I feel despair about the > GUI, too, not because of automatically generated and submitted reports but > because I find that GTK+ in C is really difficult to understand and use > properly and interface to our engine. > > My current concept for the rewrite, regarding the GUI, is to separate the GUI > and the engine. The engine can run on its own, in its own process, unaffected > by any kind of problem in the GUI. If the GUI crashes, then it can just > restart and reconnect to the running engine. Separating into two processes > also raises the possibility of writing the engine and the GUI in different > languages (for example, the GUI could be implemented in Python, or in > Javascript/Typescript) or domains (e.g. in a web browser). > > I have a of code written already (it looks like it's about 37000 lines of > Rust) but it does not add up to a useful program yet. Probably, an equivalent > of pspp-convert or pspp-output will be the first useful program. > > You can clone what I have from git://benpfaff.org/pspp. It's in the `rust` > branch. The Git history is a mess, don't bother reading it, just look at the > files. I do have a rewrite of the manual available for browsing: > https://benpfaff.org/~blp/book/html/ > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM Friedrich Beckmann > <friedrich.beckm...@posteo.de> wrote: > you are a brave man! I just made some first steps with embedded rust and > found it a new learning experience. I thought that this must be the feeling > of new students when you read compiler messages and they just do not mean a > lot to you. Then I copied the messages to google hoping to find something > reasonable. But I liked all concepts I found and were new to me. > > Many recent bugs are gui bugs quite often resulting in a crash. I have the > feeling to work on some pretty old historic stuff with the gtk3 concepts > where we are now at gtk 3.24.49. Maybe graphs could be rendered on a > webbrowser via plotly. It seems that the gui handling with all the signals at > various places are kind of very difficult to keep under control. > > > Am 13.06.2025 um 19:43 schrieb Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu>: > > > > It's impossible to keep up with the flood of "security" bugs that people > > generate automatically and submit. I am not going to try. > > > > I'm working on rewriting PSPP in Rust, which will by itself eliminate all > > of these and produce a better piece of software anyhow. > > > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM opensuse.lietuviu.kalba > > <opensuse.lietuviu.ka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Please look at these security bugs: > > • https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67049 > > https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1242838 > > • https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?67069 > > https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243731 > > • https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?67071 > > https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244376 > > • https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?67072 > > https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244378 > > • https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67073 > > https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243054 > > • https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67074 > > https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243052 > > • https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67075 > > https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243053 > > • https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67079 > > https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243322 > > Any news? It would be nice if some PSPP developer could put some comments > > in https://bugzilla.suse.com too. > > -- > > Regards, > > Mindaugas >
