Re: psppire

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> I think we now need to consider what is the minimum set of
> functionality the gui should have before we can release it, and start
> working towards that  goal. 
>
> Do people think it's releasable as is?  If not, what needs to be
> implemented?

I don't have a strong opinion on this.  If it doesn't get
improved before the next release, we can call it a "data editor"
for now.  If it does, then it's a general-purpose GUI.

Part of the answer depends on what we want in PSPP as a whole
before the next release.  One part of that, in turn, is in the
bug tracking system.  Just now I went through and updated the
"release" field of all the bugs to reflect my current opinions.
(I'm sure you'll all get a flurry of email as a result.)  Feel
free to disagree and change them to suit yourself.

What do we want in the next release as a whole, beside what's
already in the bug system?  I know that personally I would still
like to implement some of the things that we discussed on our
conference call.  Actually, I'll just file bugs on those, so
you can see them on Savannah.
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