Re: CTABLES

[Matthias Faeth]

I'm not sure if I get the discussion under the label CTABLES here: why should "production jobs" replace CTABLES?

Or is it just that there are 3 open topics by now

1. CTABLES

2. Production jobs

3. Reading .spv files

and the discussion is on which to focus time and energy?

Anybody give me a hint, please.

Matthias

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2015-11-08 8:25 GMT+01:00 Ben Pfaff <address@hidden>:

On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 01:36:01AM +0000, Charles Johnson wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 17:03:01 -0800
> > From: address@hidden
> > To: address@hidden
> > CC: address@hidden; address@hidden; address@hidden; address@hidden; address@hidden; address@hidden; address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: CTABLES
> >
> > I've done a lot of the work needed to figure out the format of SPV
> > files. I'm working on publishing a format specification. Then I'll
> > work on implementing a reader for it.
>
> That is great news. If you need more files of type SPV/SPO could ask
> another topic of discussion.

At some point I'll need some more to answer a few lingering questions,
but I can already extract all of the important content.

> > Would it be useful to add support for SPSS production job files? That
> > would not be hard (much easier than SPV files or CTABLES). I'd need a
> > bunch of examples of the format.
>
> 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.

OK.