PSPP development is ongoing. It already supports a large subset of
SPSS's syntax. Its statistical procedure support is currently
limited, but growing. At your option, PSPP will produce statistical
-reports in ASCII, PostScript, or HTML formats.
+reports in ASCII, PostScript, PDF, HTML, SVG, or OpenDocument formats.
Instructions for PSPP installation are in INSTALL, including a list of
prerequisite packages and other PSPP-specific information. Full
Source code for the latest release of PSPP is available at
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/pspp/. Older versions may be obtained from
-ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/. Development sources are available from
-CVS at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/pspp
-
+ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/. Development sources are available
+at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/pspp
+
+The following miscellaneous notes apply to this release:
+
+ * On a few operating systems, such as OpenBSD, some of the
+ tests may fail with messages similar to: 'Warning: cannot
+ create a convertor for "646" to "UTF-8"'. These test
+ failures may safely be ignored.
+
Questions and comments about using PSPP may be sent to pspp-users@gnu.org.
Bug reports may be filed at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=pspp
or emailed to bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org. We prefer the web-based system
* Attractive output, including graphs, in a variety of human-
and machine-readable formats. PSPP currently produces
- output in ASCII, PostScript, and HTML formats. We will
- enhance PSPP's output formatting in the future.
+ output in ASCII, PostScript, PDF, HTML, and SVG formats. We
+ will enhance PSPP's output formatting in the future.
* Good documentation. Currently the PSPP manual describes its
language completely, but we would like to add information on
statistical procedures is evolving quickly enough that a
plug-in model does not make sense. Over the long term, it
may make sense to introduce plug-ins.
+
+For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package note
+that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.