2008/5/30 John Darrington
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:43:09AM +0200, unknown-1 wrote:
Hi
- in the current situation PSPPire leaves files behind in directories.
> In my
> opinion this is not a clean behavier.
>
> Why? Lot's of programs leave files in the current
> directory. Compilers, editors, linkers ...
>
Sure, but this output is needed/expected after the porgram is ended. Maybe I
am wrong, but as far as I can see there is no use for the files which stay
behind now. They are only needed by the program during runtime as far as I
found.
I guess there are some philosphocial issues here. The way I've always
regarded pspp is that it takes a *.sps file as input and produces a
pspp.list file as output. So in this view, the output files are
absolutely essential. Without them, the program's completely useless.
If the files are intended to exist after PSPPire is ended, then they don't belong on the temp dir. So my call can be closed.
CU