Re: Remove links to Windows builds?

[John Darrington]

In general, I agree with Fritz and Alan.

We already have this warning on that page:

  Please note: Because the PSPP developers have not prepared these binaries, we
  cannot in general vouch for them.

Perhaps we could make it somewhat more prominent.

Right now, my paid employment is keeping me rather busy, so unfortunately I
have little time for PSPP.  When that situation resolves itself  I can look
at setting up a windows build (if nobody else does first) I don't believe
it will be a particularly difficult exercise (but testing and debugging
windoze issues might be another matter).

J'


On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 12:14:30AM -0600, Alan Mead wrote:
     I agree with Fritz. I think it would cause a lot less heartburn to add
     warnings and a lot more heartburn to remove the links.
     
     As the Windows version gets more out of sync, I guess the balance could
     shift. I hope this isn't the case for a very long time.
     
     -Alan
     
     
     On 3/11/2021 12:09 AM, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
     > Hi Ben,
     >
     > I don’t think so. I guess that the majority of users use the windows 
version. Some issues like the Windows7 64Bit issue pop up some times. I think 
it is better to inform the users that windows cannot be build currently and 
that there are some known issues. So they have to wait. Anyway the released 
version works for most I guess.
     >
     > Fritz
     >
     >> Am 10.03.2021 um 18:31 schrieb Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>:
     >>
     >> I'm starting to believe that we should remove the links to the Windows
     >> builds entirely, because people are reporting bugs that we can't fix.
     >>
     >> What do you think?
     >>
     >
     
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