Re: PSPPP for windows

[ajk-eis]

Harry - I find your reasoning noble but do think that when less
fortunate are running such old systems (as they no doubt are) they
probably would not be updating frequently as long as the installation
"works".  IOW an older build (your last?) is probably sufficient.

Another group are the academic students and classes who normally would
have up to date systems be it Windows or Apple (WINE).  They would
benefit from the latest builds and IMHO the x86 and x64 Windows builds
would be entirely sufficient.

I will probably contact you off group in the next few days if you are
comfortable with that.

Al

On 01.09.2021 09:59, Harry Thijssen wrote:
> reply to several posts in this forum
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> Older versions of PSPP for MSwindows are still available on:
>   https://sourceforge.net/projects/pspp4windows/files/
> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/pspp4windows/files/>
> I have no intention to remove these versions so I guess they will be
> available for a long time. However as pointed out I won't be building
> new builds. So the published builds are more and more outdated.
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> The reason that there are no new builds is that there is a change in
> the PSPP sources witch makes it necessary to refactoring the
> procedures to build the MSWindows binary. As I wanted to retire from
> the project anyhow it was the natural time to stop with publishing my
> builds.
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> The decision which MSWindows version to support is off course to the
> volunteer who offers his/her spare time to this work. Or the company
> who pays for it.
> For me it was very important to support less fortunate people. There
> are large parts of the world where people can not afford the newest
> hardware. Certainly not on schools for education of pupils. There are
> lots of computers who have not the power to run a newer version as
> MSWindows XP, and to my knowledge some of them run PSPP to teach
> pupils the basics of statistics. 
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> To everybody, feel free to create new MSWindows builds. My procedures
> are published so you can take them and use them to get ideas how it
> can be done. The latest release is downloaded more as 200.000 times
> from sourceforge alone, so there is a demand.
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> Stay safe 
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