Re: GUI update

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

>      > One decision concerns the protocol to use between user interface and
>      > back end.  Do we want to allow pspp user interfaces to connect to spss
>      > servers? (or vici-versa)?  If so, we'll have to reverse engineer the
>      > protocol.  If not, we can devise our own.
>      
>      I don't think we should tie ourselves to undocumented SPSS
>      protocols.  We'll be in trouble if they change anything.
>
> I wonder if an spss v10 client works with a v14 server or vici-versa ?

Now that's an interesting question.  If SPSS maintains backward
compatibility itself then it might be interesting to try to learn
how it works.
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