easy installation for windows

[Gene Shackman]

Hi all

I was looking at pspp and it looks very nice.  The only issue I had is the installation. I found these


http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/pspp/INSTALL?revision=1.16&root=pspp&view=markup&pathrev=MAIN
http://jstover.motd.org/cgi-bin/oddmuse.cgi/MS-Windows_using_Cygwin

which seem to make it rather difficult to install, as you need to install a bunch of other things first.  Also, one other person I asked about it wrote "Some of the instructions contained very casual comments like "installing this component will probably disable some of your currently running programs"."

Is there a possibility that pspp may someday be developed to install very easily on PCs with windows?  Without needing to install any other software?

I have a page linking to free stat packages
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/soft.html

but I'd rather not list pspp until it is much easier to install and doesn't have warnings like the above.

Thanks

Gene


Gene Shackman, Ph.D.
The Global Social Change Research Project
http://gsociology.icaap.org
Free Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods
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Applied Sociologist
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