Re: my status

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> 1. I'm currently looking at extending system files to read/write string
>    variables upto 32767 bytes in length, a la SPSS v13/v14.

I hope we don't have any fixed-size buffers that expect to be big
enough to hold any string.  I can't think of any off-hand, but
it'd be bad if we did.

> 3. When Ben's checked in the error code, I'll look at the gui
>    again. Hopefully get the data sheet working with arbitrary length
>    casefiles. Ben, some time ago, we discussed a case_reader_clone
>    function in the context of implementing RANK.  I think the gui will
>    require something similar.  Is this something simple to implement?

It shouldn't be hard.  I'll flag it as something to do soon.

I forgot to mention something else in my status report.  I'm
planning to drastically simplify how PSPP is configured.
Currently there's a hairy mess of environment variables,
command-line options, multiple levels of defaults, and so on.
There is way more than needed.  I'm planning to get rid of most
of it.  That'll make life easier for everyone: developers won't
have to look at complicated code and users won't have to
understand complicated instructions in the manual.

Any objections?
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Ben Pfaff 
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