Re: Warning on unreleased versions.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 06:37:49AM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 10:00:41AM -0800, 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.
>      
>      For example:
>      
>      diff --git a/src/ui/gui/psppire-output-window.c 
> b/src/ui/gui/psppire-output-window.c
>      index 469966a..1da4b24 100644
>      --- a/src/ui/gui/psppire-output-window.c
>      +++ b/src/ui/gui/psppire-output-window.c
>      @@ -182,6 +182,15 @@ psppire_output_window_setup (void)
>         output_driver_init (d, &psppire_output_class, "PSPPIRE",
>                             SETTINGS_DEVICE_UNFILTERED);
>         output_driver_register (d);
>      +
>      +  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.")));
>       }
>       
> 
> The wording seems find to me.
> 
> I'm not so sure that is will be as noticable as we would like - it
> will scroll off the top of the screen after a large output.  

Why can't the user see it at startup?  I don't understand why it needs
to be visible at all times.

> And in cases like reported here:
> 
>  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-users/2016-02/msg00007.html
> 
> The user would not have seen the message until after experiencing the bug, if 
> at all.

The user will see the message as soon as he (or she) starts PSPP.  You
are saying that the user in that case experienced a bug before PSPP
started?  I don't understand.