Re: PSPPP for windows

[Ben Pfaff]

In the news, I see that the latest WSL release supports graphical applications.

On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 8:12 AM Marshall DeBerry <mmdeberry@charter.net> wrote:
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> As a follow up, I seem to recall that Microsoft will be releasing some sort 
> of graphics capability to WSL in their next release of that product, which is 
> supposed to occur probably sometime later this year.  There are some current 
> hacks to get some degree of graphics to work in WSL, but probably best to 
> wait to see what Microsoft will be releasing.
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> Marshall
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> From: Pspp-users <pspp-users-bounces+mmdeberry=charter.net@gnu.org> On Behalf 
> Of Marshall DeBerry
> Sent: Thursday, September 2, 2021 11:04 AM
> To: 'Ben Pfaff' <blp@cs.stanford.edu>; 'Quandt, Markus' 
> <Markus.Quandt@gesis.org>
> Cc: 'pspp-users' <pspp-users@gnu.org>
> Subject: RE: PSPPP for windows
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> So, running Windows 10 with latest updates, running the Windows Terminal app 
> as Administrator, executing  wsl  with Fedora 34 as the Linux OS installed 
> and updated, executing a  sudo dnf install pspp,  I am able to bring up pspp 
> in command mode.   Trying to execute psppire results in the following error 
> messages: “Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused”  and 
>  “(psppire:185): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:55:49.878: cannot open display:  “
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> That’s a far as I’ve gotten so far.  It does look like the command mode will 
> work under WSL though.
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> From: Pspp-users <pspp-users-bounces+mmdeberry=charter.net@gnu.org> On Behalf 
> Of Ben Pfaff
> Sent: Thursday, September 2, 2021 2:27 AM
> To: Quandt, Markus <Markus.Quandt@gesis.org>
> Cc: pspp-users <pspp-users@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: PSPPP for windows
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> I believe that Windows can run GNU/Linux software now, via WSL. Has anyone 
> tried this with PSPP?
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> On Wed, Sep 1, 2021, 11:12 PM Quandt, Markus <Markus.Quandt@gesis.org> wrote:
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> Al, everyone - just to mention again that I find it really exciting that this 
> exchange is opening up the option of having ready-made Windows binaries 
> again. That would be really great.
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> And yes, I agree with the reasoning about the Windows 10 binaries being what 
> is really needed, by 90+ % of the potential users running *any* Windows 
> version. If that is a consideration at all, between those two I would even 
> focus the effort on the x64 version, to make it more future-proof, as x32 
> support seems to start fading away?
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> And a huge "thank you" to Harry for the long-time work with the existing 
> Windows binaries.
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> Markus
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Pspp-users <pspp-users-bounces+markus.quandt=gesis.org@gnu.org> Im 
> Auftrag von ajk-eis
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 2. September 2021 03:20
> An: pspp-users@gnu.org
> Betreff: Re: PSPPP for windows
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> Harry - I find your reasoning noble but do think that when less fortunate are 
> running such old systems (as they no doubt are) they probably would not be 
> updating frequently as long as the installation "works".  IOW an older build 
> (your last?) is probably sufficient.
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> Another group are the academic students and classes who normally would have 
> up to date systems be it Windows or Apple (WINE).  They would benefit from 
> the latest builds and IMHO the x86 and x64 Windows builds would be entirely 
> sufficient.
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> I will probably contact you off group in the next few days if you are 
> comfortable with that.
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> Al
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> On 01.09.2021 09:59, Harry Thijssen wrote:
> > reply to several posts in this forum
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> > Older versions of PSPP for MSwindows are still available on:
> >   https://sourceforge.net/projects/pspp4windows/files/
> > <https://sourceforge.net/projects/pspp4windows/files/>
> > I have no intention to remove these versions so I guess they will be
> > available for a long time. However as pointed out I won't be building
> > new builds. So the published builds are more and more outdated.
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> > The reason that there are no new builds is that there is a change in
> > the PSPP sources witch makes it necessary to refactoring the
> > procedures to build the MSWindows binary. As I wanted to retire from
> > the project anyhow it was the natural time to stop with publishing my
> > builds.
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> > The decision which MSWindows version to support is off course to the
> > volunteer who offers his/her spare time to this work. Or the company
> > who pays for it.
> > For me it was very important to support less fortunate people. There
> > are large parts of the world where people can not afford the newest
> > hardware. Certainly not on schools for education of pupils. There are
> > lots of computers who have not the power to run a newer version as
> > MSWindows XP, and to my knowledge some of them run PSPP to teach
> > pupils the basics of statistics.
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> > To everybody, feel free to create new MSWindows builds. My procedures
> > are published so you can take them and use them to get ideas how it
> > can be done. The latest release is downloaded more as 200.000 times
> > from sourceforge alone, so there is a demand.
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