PSPP NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
-Time-stamp: <2005-07-03 21:25:56 blp>
+Time-stamp: <2006-01-28 19:05:46 blp>
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+Changes since 0.4.1:
+
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-Changes from 0.3.0 to 0.4.0:
+Changes since 0.4.0 to 0.4.1:
+
+ Newly implemented commands and statistical features:
+
+ * CLOSE FILE HANDLE (a PSPP extension; see below).
+
+ * REGRESSION.
+
+ * XEXPORT (a PSPP extension).
+
+ New PSPP extension:
- New build dependencies:
+ A new PSPP extension called "scratch files" has been implemented.
+ A scratch file, like a system file, consists of a dictionary and
+ any number of cases. A sufficiently small scratch file is stored
+ in memory; if it grows too large, it is written to disk. By
+ default, any file handle whose name begins with # is assumed to
+ refer to a scratch file.
- * The GNU Scientific Library (libgsl), version 1.6 or later.
+ Scratch files can be used just about anywhere a system or portable
+ file can be used. Also, portable files are now allowed in most
+ places that system files were allowed in previous PSPP version.
- * The GNU multiprecision arithmetic library (libgmp).
+ A new CLOSE FILE HANDLE command allows the storage associated with
+ scratch files to be freed. It also allows file handles to be
+ reassigned to new files.
+
+ For more information on scratch files, refer to the "File Handles"
+ section in the PSPP manual. For specifics of what commands now
+ allow what kinds of files to be specified, refer to the
+ documentation on those particular commands.
+
+ PSPP is now able to start up and run even if it cannot find its
+ configuration files.
+
+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.
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.
+
Version 0.3.0 changes since 0.2.3:
Bugs fixed: