Re: windows version of pspp at augsburg.de

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I meant that I have installed Friedrich's version recently on Windows.

I have compiled PSPP quite a while ago for CentOS. I needed John Darrington's help and I could only get the non-gui target to build and only for an older version of pspp.

I think compiling pspp for Windows with, say, Visual Studio might be complicated. Maybe a Windows dev would disagree, but I think the builds that are created are cross-compiled from Linux. It might be easier under Cygwin or with one of the recent additions to Windows to make it easier to compile software intended for Linux...

-Alan

On 3/26/2022 5:02 PM, someone wrote:

Hi Alan

Thanks for responding. Do you mean you compiled and PSPP developer's version of PSPP and installed that? Or you installed Friedrich's version.

Thanks

Gene

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Mead <amead@alanmead.org>
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Cc: pspp-users@gnu.org <pspp-users@gnu.org>
Sent: Thu, Mar 24, 2022 7:44 pm
Subject: Re: windows version of pspp at augsburg.de

And to expand on that, the PSPP developers release source code and each platform (Windows, Mac, each Linux distro) then needs a package maintainer to compile the software and "package" it to make it available for end-users.

(To be clear, end-users are also allowed, even encouraged, to compile the software themselves, but that is beyond the technical capabilities of the average computer user.)

So virtually 100% of the users of PSPP are using a version made by someone else.

Not that it's a bad idea to find out who made it. You are trusting that the compiled code is sound. I can vouch for having installed and used the Windows version of PSPP, but obviously your mileage may vary.

-Alan

On 3/24/2022 5:58 PM, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:

Hi Gene,

i made this version.

Friedrich

Am 24.03.2022 um 23:50 schrieb someone <maffydoit@aol.com>:

Hi all, sorry if this has been answered. 

This page says we can get a windows version of pspp

https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/get.html

Which goes to here

https://caeis.etech.fh-augsburg.de/downloads/windows/1.5.3-g797d4c/

Is there any information on who made this version? 

Thanks

Gene

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