Re: PSPP 0.4.0 released

[P.C.J.G. Brunier]

Done

P.C.J.G. Brunier wrote:

>Hey Ben,
>
>Congrats to you and the rest of the team with the new release. The info
>you mailed should be put on the website.
>All other things like regenerating the manual will be done today, and
>will be put online.
>
>- Patrick
>
>Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
>  
>
>>PSPP 0.4.0 is now available on ftp.gnu.org.  You may download it via
>>    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/pspp/pspp-0.4.0.tar.gz
>>It should propagate to mirrors over the next few days.
>>
>>You may validate it by checking the release against my public key,
>>which is available in the Debian keyring and elsewhere.  The same
>>key is used to sign this announcement.
>>
>>What is PSPP?
>>=============
>>
>>PSPP is a program for statistical analysis of sampled data. It
>>interprets commands in the SPSS language and produces tabular output
>>in ASCII, PostScript, or HTML format.
>>
>>PSPP development is ongoing. It already supports a large subset of
>>SPSS's transformation language.  Its statistical procedure support is
>>currently limited, but growing.
>>
>>Source code for the latest release of PSPP is available at
>>ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/pspp/.  Older versions may be obtained from
>>ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/.  Development sources are available from
>>CVS at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/pspp
>>
>>Questions and comments regarding PSPP can be sent to address@hidden
>>PSPP bug reports may be sent to address@hidden or filed in the
>>bug-tracking system at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=pspp
>>according to your preference.
>>
>>Release Notes
>>=============
>>
>>A few system-specific issues have been noted.  These may be PSPP bugs
>>or system bugs; we have not yet been able to track them down precisely:
>>
>>    * On Solaris, one or more tests may fail `make check'.  We have
>>      only seen this reported on Solaris 9 with GCC 3.4.2.  Our
>>      reporter says that turning off optimization (with -O0) at least
>>      masked the symptoms.
>>
>>    * On Mac OS X, GCC 4.0.0 build 4061 has been observed to cause
>>      some tests to fail.  Later builds should work fine.
>>
>>Finally, a few extra notes:
>>
>>    * The Sun WorkShop compiler will not work out of the box in this
>>      release.  Use GCC instead.  We will fix this for the next
>>      release.
>>
>>    * GCC 4.x reports an inordinate number of warnings for this
>>      release.  You may ignore these for now.  We will fix these for
>>      the next release.
>>
>>News
>>====
>>
>>Changes from 0.3.0 to 0.4.0:
>>
>>  Changes in build dependencies:
>>
>>    * The GNU Scientific Library (libgsl), version 1.6 or later, is
>>      now required.
>>
>>    * libplot from GNU plotutils is optional.  Without it, the new
>>      graphing features will not work.  If you do not have it
>>      installed, you must run `configure' with --without-libplot.
>>
>>    * libgmp2 is no longer a dependency.
>>
>>  Newly implemented commands and statistical features:
>>
>>    * EXAMINE, including its graphing features.
>>
>>    * FREQUENCIES now supports percentiles.
>>
>>    * ONEWAY.
>>
>>    * PERMISSIONS.
>>
>>    * SHOW.
>>
>>    * SORT CASES now sorts stably, that is, two cases with equal sort
>>      criteria will be in the same relative order before and after the
>>      sort.
>>
>>    * T-TEST (re-written).
>>
>>    * DATE and USE.  These commands are parsed but otherwise ignored,
>>      to enhance compatibility with certain command files that invoke
>>      them unnecessarily.
>>
>>    * VARIABLE WIDTH, VARIABLE ALIGNMENT, and VARIABLE LEVEL.  These
>>      currently have no effect on PSPP output, but their values are
>>      written to and read from system files and thus may affect
>>      third-party software.
>>
>>    * SET EPOCH implemented.
>>
>>    * DATA LIST FREE and DATA LIST LIST now support arbitrary field
>>      delimiters.
>>
>>    * FILE HANDLE now supports custom tab widths.
>>
>>  Long variable names (and other identifiers) are now supported.  Up
>>  to the first 64 bytes of each identifier is significant.  PSPP now
>>  reads and writes system files compatible with SPSS version 12.
>>
>>  New --algorithm and --syntax command line options allow
>>  SPSS-compatible or enhanced modes to be selected.
>>
>>  Support for transformation expressions has been rewritten and
>>  significantly improved.  Refer to the manual for details.
>>
>>  Calculation of moments (mean, standard deviation, kurtosis,
>>  skewness) has been rewritten and should now be more accurate.  In
>>  --algorithm=enhanced mode moments may be more accurate than SPSS in
>>  some cases.
>>
>>  Numerous bugs have been fixed, too many to mention here.  Many new
>>  tests have been added, leading to the discovery and fixing of many
>>  of these bugs.
>>
>>  The ASCII output driver can now squeeze multiple blank lines into
>>  single blank lines.
>>
>>  Much of the code has been rewritten and refactored.  It is now much
>>  cleaner.
>>
>>  The FILE TYPE and REPEATING DATA commands have been disabled for
>>  this release because their implementations were deemed too buggy to
>>  be useful.  They will be fixed and replaced in a future release.
>>
>>  New pspp-mode for Emacs (in pspp-mode.el).
>>
>>  Added rudimentary command-line completion for interactive input.
>>
>>  lib/julcal and lib/dcdflib are no longer used, so they have been
>>  removed.
>>
>>  For developers, the build system now requires Autoconf 2.58 and
>>  Automake 1.7.  The included gettext has been updated to version
>>  0.12.1.
>>
>>  Some reports state that Texinfo 4.8, the latest version, may be
>>  necessary to successfully format the documentation on some systems.
>>
>>    
>>
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