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

[Alan Mead]

On 7/29/2020 12:31 PM, John Darrington wrote:
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> Ssw is very easy to build and install.  It requires gtk+ but once you
> have that installed there are no other dependencies.  I presume CentOS is like
> most other distros; they will accept package contributions from
> volunteers?
>
> J'
>

CentOS attempts close compatibility to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL),
so if RHEL doesn't ship PSPP, then contributions would go into an
Extra's repo or some projects maintain a package for RHEL/CentOS.

But Fedora is upstream and used to maintain a PSPP package (maybe still
does; and it not using ancient versions of libraries like RHEL) so
that's where I'd focus.

I can take a look since it's been a long time. The last version of
PSPPIRE that I got to compile on CentOS 6 (with considerable help from
you) was 0.8.5, IIRC, and I think at the time we didn't think that
CentOS 6 would ever support future versions because of the old libraries
(including, IIRC, libc). That's fine, it's almost EOL, but CentOS 7
probably isn't that much more advanced.

-Alan

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