Re: PSPP-BUG: Ventura problems

[Nicolet Theunissen]

haha, I apologize for being vague. It is my first time as a bug reporter and 
apparently I have a lot to learn. 
I’m in the middle of a project with a bad deadline now, but next time I will 
try to be more precise.

best
Nicolet



> Op 28 dec. 2022, om 09:29 heeft John Darrington <john@cellform.com> het 
> volgende geschreven:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 11:49:15AM +0100, Nicolet Theunissen wrote:
>> Dear PSPP builder
>> 
>> I tried 1.6.2-2 on MAC OS Ventura 1.3.1 but it did not work. Even switching 
>> in a sav file from variable to data view did not work.
> 
> Simpy saying "did not work" isn't useful information.  - it could mean almost 
> anything.
> It could mean that the computer fails to boot. It could mean that it failed 
> to install.  It could mean that it crashed on startup ... It could mean that 
> it lounged around in bed all day.
> 
> 
> 
>> I switched back to PSPP 1.4.1-2
>> This version also has some bugs in Ventura, when clicking on one tab , for 
>> instance the syntax file, it switches to another tab for instance data file. 
>> So, the syntaxfile can not be edited.
> 
> This is a slightly better report, because you have described - albeit vaguely 
> - the nature of the problem.
> However it's not clear (at least not to me) *why* the syntax file cannot be 
> edited.
> 
> 
> See https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/html_node/Bugs.html for tips on 
> how to give useful bug reports.
> See also https://www.droptica.com/blog/why-simple-it-doesnt-work-not-enough
> and  https://ronwhitman.com/it-doesnt-work-and-the-art-of-bug-reports/
> 
>> Hope you will fix this
> 
> I hope so too, but with such a vague report I don't think there will be 
> anything to work with.
>