Re: Install language: OS X 10.15.5, pspp-1.3.0-g69a18e796

[Ben Pfaff]

The PSPP daily builds happen on Debian. I don't know whether that
answers your question.

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 9:48 AM Alan Mead <amead@alanmead.org> wrote:
>
> Harry Thijssen's build process for Windows?
>
> What Linux distro would I need to install to have pspp packaged (or have the 
> requirements packaged so the tarball woudl compile cleanly)? Because I have 
> six Linux machines running CentOS 6 and 7 and none of them will run psppire.
>
> Windows is the only way I can use PSPP (IRE) (because I also do not have a 
> Mac).
>
> I was hopeful that Fedora would support it and I'd be willing to install 
> Fedora, but last time I checked (quite a while ago) they weren't maintaining 
> a package for the spreadsheet widget. I'm not dying to install an 
> apt-get-based Linux, just to run PSPP...
>
> -Alan
>
> On 7/29/2020 11:26 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
> I keep thinking it would be nice to have automatic builds of PSPP for
> Mac OS and for Windows, in the same way that we have them for
> GNU/Linux. It would be helpful to our users.
>
> Regarding Mac, I don't have a Mac OS system, nor do I want to acquire
> one. The Travis system at travis-ci.org can do autobuilds for Mac.
> However, there are a couple of obstacles to using it for PSPP from a
> GNU point of view:
> * It only builds from Github, so we would have to mirror PSPP to
> Github. I don't think the GNU project approves of Github because of
> its proprietary implementation and proprietary Javascript.
> * Travis itself has a proprietary implementation and proprietary Javascript.
>
> I'd be very pleased if someone could point me to a more-free alternative.
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 6:39 AM Friedrich Beckmann
> <friedrich.beckmann@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Tony,
>
> I guess you are running into this problem here:
>
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58537
>
> So as a workaround you can start psppire from the terminal with proper 
> language variable settings until I do a new release
> based on gettext 0.20.x. I think another workaround is to uninstall the 
> languages that you do not need on MacOS.
>
> Regards
>
> Friedrich
>
> Am 29.07.2020 um 05:04 schrieb Tony Lima <tony@proflima.com>:
>
> I’ve installed two different versions.  Both launch into Spanish language.  
> As far as I can tell, my machine is set to US English (although I do have 
> multiple keyboard languages).  Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Tony Lima
>
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