Re: next release soon?

[Jason Stover]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 06:59:19PM +0900, John Darrington wrote:
> I think the GUI is stable.  By which I mean that it robustly supports
> all the features which have been implemented.  Whether enough features
> have been implemented in order to make it useable by Joe Average User
> is another matter.  Perhaps Jason can comment on this, since I
> understand he's been involved with such users.

I could make a case for replacing other software with pspp software in
at least one lab on campus if the gui had dialog boxes for RECODE,
CROSSTABS and FREQUENCIES, and some kind of dialog to import text
data. That may be too much to ask for in next release, but that is
necessary before ask naive users to use pspp.

> I'm meaning to get back onto the dialog boxes that I'd agreed to
> implement (One Sample T-Test and Paired T-Test), but in the mean time
> I got sidetracked and started to do a dialog box for RECODE (which is
> almost ready for check-in).  How are you going with the dialogs you
> were doing?

I haven't gotten past the frustration of pointing and clicking with
glade-3. The progress is slow, mostly because because of my own
distaste. Someday I'll make a real dialog box, though.

-Jason