Re: Warning on unreleased versions.

[Alan Mead]

On 2/28/2016 12:00 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> I suggest putting it into the output window at startup, once.  This is
> easy to do, it is likely that users will notice, and it is not as
> obnoxious as some of the other options.
> +
> +  text_item_submit (
> +    text_item_create (TEXT_ITEM_PARAGRAPH,
> +                      _("This is a development version of PSPP.  Please be "
> +                        "alert to the likely possibility that it contains "
> +                        "more bugs than a PSPP release.  If you encounter "
> +                        "bugs, please consider reporting them to the PSPP "
> +                        "developers at address@hidden, to enable them "
> +                        "to be fixed.")));
>  }

This seems good to me but is there a way around John's objections that
regression tests would fail?  Or is that not a big deal?

-Alan

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