Re: what essential GUI pieces are left?

[Ben Pfaff]

Jason Stover <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:12:22PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> Hi Jason.  John and I had a brief discussion on IRC a few days
>> ago about the GUI.  In your opinion, what needs to be added to
>> it before PSPPIRE can be a useful teaching tool?  If there are
>> missing features that we can realistically add before 0.6.0, then
>> we should do it.
>
> Right now, psppire does almost all of what I need for an introductory
> service course. For such a course, I would also like to have "easy"
> graphs, pretty output, and the ability to fetch text data via http. If
> these are easy to add, then we should do so, but if not, psppire is still
> very useful. The graphs and output should be high priority, but are
> nontrivial, so should probably go into a future release.

Of "big" features, better output (including graphs) is my highest
priority for post-0.6.0.  I need to explain my plan here
sometime.

> For a more advanced course, I would need a GLM procedure, which isn't
> going to be in the next release.

OK.

>> Otherwise, the remaining bugs tagged pre-0.6.0 are all pretty
>> trivial things, e.g. "Update About Dialog".  In that case, I
>> think it's time to start doing pre-release portability testing
>> and making release candidates.
>
> Sounds good to me.

Great!
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Ben Pfaff 
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