I'm quite busy at the moment working on a paper for NSDI 07, which is going to be the second half of my PhD thesis, so it is unlikely that I will get much PSPP work done between now and the Oct. 9 deadline.
I've accomplished some PSPP work in the past few weeks, but it is not yet ready for review. I am essentially finished with revamping the input and output formatting code, as well as rewriting the documentation. I am now working on adding strict tests of functionality and comparing PSPP's input and output against SPSS's. I also went off on a significant tangent in which I wrote a bunch of code for converting among integer and floating-point formats. This will allow PSPP to read and write little-endian, big-endian, and VAX-endian integer data, as well as IEEE 754, VAX, and IBM mainframe hexadecimal floating-point formats, regardless of the architecture that PSPP actually runs on. I tried to acquire some system files for testing the VAX and IBM support by posting on the SPSS newsgroup, but no one replied, so I will probably not be able to test this support for system files, only for plain data files. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
