From 998c6bac5f1d781505591ac6b3e78df25e566282 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Pfaff Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 06:07:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update. --- TODO | 67 ++---------------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-) diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 8a798cf2..198bf210 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,13 +1,10 @@ -Time-stamp: <2005-08-02 10:24:25 blp> +Time-stamp: <2006-02-17 22:06:31 blp> Get rid of need for GNU diff in `make check'. Get rid of need for file name canonicalization. -Use getsubopt()? - -Format specifier and missing values code needs to be rewritten for lowered -crappiness. +Format specifier code needs to be rewritten for lowered crappiness. CROSSTABS needs to be re-examined. @@ -23,17 +20,8 @@ Add NOT_REACHED() macro. Add compression to casefiles. -There needs to be another layer onto the lexer, which should probably be -entirely rewritten anyway. The lexer needs to read entire *commands* at a -time, not just a *line* at a time. It also needs to support arbitrary putback, -probably by just backing up the "current position" in the command buffer. - Scratch variables should not be available for use following TEMPORARY. -Details of N OF CASES, SAMPLE, FILTER, PROCESS IF, TEMPORARY, etc., need to be -checked against the documentation. See notes on these at end of file for a -start. - Check our results against the NIST StRD benchmark results at strd.itl.nist.gov/div898/strd @@ -54,8 +42,6 @@ Cell footnotes. PostScript driver should emit thin lines, then thick lines, to optimize time and space. -New functions? var_name_or_label(), tab_value_or_label() - Should be able to bottom-justify cells. It'll be expensive, though, by requiring an extra metrics call. @@ -69,8 +55,6 @@ bottom borders on middle pages.) Support multi-line titles on tables. (For the first page only, presumably.) -Rewrite the convert_F() function in data-out.c to be nicer code. - In addition to searching the source directory, we should search the current directory (for data files). (Yuck!) @@ -79,8 +63,6 @@ setlinecap is *not* a proper solution. Fix som_columns(). -Has glob.c been pared down enough? - Improve interactivity of output by allowing a `commit' function for a page. This will also allow for infinite-length pages. @@ -92,16 +74,9 @@ created or modified by a previous transformation. The manual: add text, add index entries, add examples. -The inline file should be improved: There should be *real* detection of whether -it is used (in dfm.c:cmd_begin_data), not after-the-fact detection. - Figure out a stylesheet for messages displayed by PSPP: i.e., what quotation marks around filenames, etc. -New SET subcommand: OUTPUT. i.e., SET OUTPUT="filename" to send output to that -file; SET OUTPUT="filename"(APPEND) to append to that file; SET OUTPUT=DEFAULT -to reset everything. There might be a better approach, though--think about it. - From Zvi Grauer and : 1. design of experiments software, specifically Factorial, response surface @@ -120,44 +95,6 @@ From Zvi Grauer and : 6. Categorical data analsys ? -IDEAS ------ - -In addition to an "infinite journal", we should keep a number of -individual-session journals, pspp.jnl-1 through pspp.jnl-X, renaming and -deleting as needed. All of the journals should have date/time comments. - -Qualifiers for variables giving type--categorical, ordinal, ... - -Analysis Wizard - -Consider consequences of xmalloc(), fail(), hcf() in interactive -use: -a. Can we safely just use setjmp()/longjmp()? -b. Will that leak memory? -i. I don't think so: all procedure-created memory is either -garbage-collected or globally-accessible. -ii. But you never know... esp. w/o Checker. -c. Is this too early to worry? too late? - -Need to implement a shared buffer for funny functions that require relatively -large permanent transient buffers (1024 bytes or so), that is, buffers that are -permanent in the sense that they probably shouldn't be deallocated but are only -used from time to time, buffers that can't be allocated on the stack because -they are of variable and unpredictable but usually relatively small (usually -line buffers). There are too many of these lurking around; can save a sizeable -amount of space at very little overhead and with very little effort by merging -them. - -Clever multiplatform GUI idea (due partly to John Williams): write a GUI in -Java where each statistical procedure dialog box could be downloaded from the -server independently. The statistical procedures would run on (the/a) server -and results would be reported through HTML tables viewed with the user's choice -of web browsers. Help could be implemented through the browser as well. - -HOWTOs ------- - MORE NOTES/IDEAS/BUGS --------------------- -- 2.30.2