RE: Production Jobs

[Charles Johnson]

I agree with you, however, a few years ago when I had no more knowledge of 
computers, I would not have said the same.

This is not to reinvent the wheel, but to offer a method that many users 
already know.  
Such functionality in PSPP, could be available on any platform, and you have a 
group of users who would know how to use it and also count with SPJ files they 
did or their companies gave them, saying, "with that file, analyze X data with 
Y statistical".

Everything depends on the perspective.

Cheers
CJT


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> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 10:10:43 +0100
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> Subject: Production Jobs
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> On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 01:36:01AM +0000, Charles Johnson wrote:
>
> From my point of view, production jobs are very useful to automate lengthy 
> and complex processes that are made recurrently. As PSPP add more commands, 
> the more useful they will be in the future.
>
>
> How would they be more useful than any general method of automation?
>
> For example, if you wanted to automatically download a file from a
> location on the web, and analzse that, you could write a 3 line shell
> script using wget and pspp. You could even have cron run it every
> day/hour/minute and upload the results somewhere.
>
> I'm sure it would also be possible with "production jobs", but I wonder
> what the utility is, reinventing the wheel to do something which can
> already be done.
>
> J'
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