From fe7fdc98b6967092d02a98227080865e0c8e22ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Darrington Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 12:33:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Minor additions and updates to the meta documentation --- INSTALL | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++----------- NEWS | 3 +++ README | 11 ++++++----- THANKS | 4 +++- 4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index cbe5fd2b2c..093138be45 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -17,9 +17,16 @@ the following simple procedure should work, even on non-GNU systems: sudo make install Obviously, you should replace 'pspp-*' in the above, with the name of -the tarball you are installing. If any part of this process fails, then -it's likely that one or more of the necessary prerequisites is missing -from your system. Read on to find out how to correct this. +the tarball you are installing. + +In 99% of cases, that is all you have to do - FINISHED! + + +If any part of the above process fails, then it is +likely that one or more of the necessary prerequisites is missing +from your system. The following paragraphs contain highly detailed +information which will help you fix this. + Before You Install ================== @@ -35,7 +42,7 @@ not present on your system. The following packages are required to install PSPP: - * An ANSI C compiler and tool chain. On Unix-like systems, we + * A C compiler and tool chain. On Unix-like systems, we recommend GCC, but any modern compilation environment should work. On Microsoft Windows, Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) and MinGW (http://www.mingw.org/) are known to work. @@ -56,7 +63,8 @@ The following packages are required to install PSPP: The following packages are required to enable PSPP's graphing features. If you cannot arrange to install them, you must run -`configure' with --without-cairo. +`configure' with --without-cairo (in which case you will get no graphing +capability). * Cairo (http://cairographics.org/), version 1.5 or later. @@ -70,25 +78,27 @@ use the GUI, you must run `configure' with --without-gui. 0.18 and 0.19 have a bug that will prevent library detection, but other versions should be fine. - * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 2.16.0 or later. + * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 2.16.0 or later. However + it must be Gtk+ 2.something - The Gtk+-3.x series will NOT work! * GtkSourceView (http://projects.gnome.org/gtksourceview/) version 2.2 or later. +The following packages are optional: -Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP binary to read +Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP program to read Gnumeric files. * zlib (http://www.zlib.net/). * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/). -Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP binary to write +Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP program to write OpenDocument text (ODT) files: * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/). -The following packages are optional. +Other optional packages: * libncurses (http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/). Without it, PSPP will assume it is running in an 80x25 terminal. @@ -276,7 +286,7 @@ Optional Features This option is useful for building a package which can be installed into an arbitrary directory and freely copied to any other directory. If you use this option, you will probably want to install the pspp - with a command similar to "make install DESTDIR=". + with a command similar to "make install DESTDIR=". Defining Variables ================== @@ -335,7 +345,7 @@ Generic `configure' Options `configure --help' for more details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007 Free +Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3685d9e2a4..ee9a73f071 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ Changes from 0.6.2 to 0.7.10: argument. This means that on a properly configured desktop, double clicking on an icon will open the file. + - Foreign formats, such as Gnumeric, OpenDocument and CSV can be imported + via using an "intelligent" application assistant dialog. + * Output changes: - The new "cairo" output driver supports output in PostScript, PDF, diff --git a/README b/README index bf3d903f63..1e95af1e90 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -2,9 +2,10 @@ PSPP is a program for statistical analysis of sampled data. It is a free replacement for the proprietary program SPSS. PSPP supports T-tests, ANOVA and GLM analyses, factor analysis, -non-parametric tests, and other statistical features. PSPP produces -statistical reports in plain text, PDF, PostScript, CSV, HTML, SVG, -and OpenDocument formats. +non-parametric tests, linear and logistic regression, clustering, +and other statistical features. PSPP produces statistical reports in +plain text, PDF, PostScript, CSV, HTML, SVG, and OpenDocument formats. +It can import data from OpenDocument, Gnumeric, text and SPSS formats. PSPP has both text-based and graphical user interfaces. The PSPP user interface has been translated into a number of languages. @@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ For information on differences from previous versions, please see file NEWS. 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://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/pspp/. Test releases are at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/. Development sources are available at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/pspp @@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ 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 + create a converter 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. diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index baa4354ad4..630f4c50a0 100644 --- a/THANKS +++ b/THANKS @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ Thanks to... + + * The Gnulib team for painstaking work to enable portability. * David MacKenzie for writing Autoconf, the automatic configuration tool. @@ -11,6 +13,6 @@ Thanks to... * François Pinard for advice on proceeding with development. - * Jim Van Zandt for Debian packaging and suggestions. + * Jim Van Zandt and "Bojo" for Debian packaging and suggestions. * The coordinators and translators at translationproject.org. -- 2.30.2