Re: Install language: OS X 10.15.5, pspp-1.3.0-g69a18e796

[Ben Pfaff]

Also, my own daily builds are *supposed* to be easily installable
everywhere, although I see that now I've screwed that up. I'll work on
that.

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 9:54 AM Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> The PSPP daily builds happen on Debian. I don't know whether that
> answers your question.
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 9:48 AM Alan Mead <amead@alanmead.org> wrote:
> >
> > Harry Thijssen's build process for Windows?
> >
> > What Linux distro would I need to install to have pspp packaged (or have 
> > the requirements packaged so the tarball woudl compile cleanly)? Because I 
> > have six Linux machines running CentOS 6 and 7 and none of them will run 
> > psppire.
> >
> > Windows is the only way I can use PSPP (IRE) (because I also do not have a 
> > Mac).
> >
> > I was hopeful that Fedora would support it and I'd be willing to install 
> > Fedora, but last time I checked (quite a while ago) they weren't 
> > maintaining a package for the spreadsheet widget. I'm not dying to install 
> > an apt-get-based Linux, just to run PSPP...
> >
> > -Alan
> >
> > On 7/29/2020 11:26 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >
> > I keep thinking it would be nice to have automatic builds of PSPP for
> > Mac OS and for Windows, in the same way that we have them for
> > GNU/Linux. It would be helpful to our users.
> >
> > Regarding Mac, I don't have a Mac OS system, nor do I want to acquire
> > one. The Travis system at travis-ci.org can do autobuilds for Mac.
> > However, there are a couple of obstacles to using it for PSPP from a
> > GNU point of view:
> > * It only builds from Github, so we would have to mirror PSPP to
> > Github. I don't think the GNU project approves of Github because of
> > its proprietary implementation and proprietary Javascript.
> > * Travis itself has a proprietary implementation and proprietary Javascript.
> >
> > I'd be very pleased if someone could point me to a more-free alternative.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 6:39 AM Friedrich Beckmann
> > <friedrich.beckmann@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Tony,
> >
> > I guess you are running into this problem here:
> >
> > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58537
> >
> > So as a workaround you can start psppire from the terminal with proper 
> > language variable settings until I do a new release
> > based on gettext 0.20.x. I think another workaround is to uninstall the 
> > languages that you do not need on MacOS.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Friedrich
> >
> > Am 29.07.2020 um 05:04 schrieb Tony Lima <tony@proflima.com>:
> >
> > I’ve installed two different versions.  Both launch into Spanish language.  
> > As far as I can tell, my machine is set to US English (although I do have 
> > multiple keyboard languages).  Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tony Lima
> >
> >
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> >
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> >
> >