Maintenance Mode & SOFA Lite

SOFA Statistics is now in stable, maintenance mode. New releases are mainly for bug fixes.

If you have been having problems running SOFA on Ubuntu / Debian / Linux check out the new deb and archive downloads at https://www.sofastatistics.com/downloads.php

Alongside SOFA Statistics I have started SOFA Lite https://github.com/grantps/sofalite. This is an almost complete re-write using some of the latest Python 3 language features and a new code architecture. It is called SOFA Lite because I am stripping out some features that were painful to maintain but were of limited value to most users.

One design goal for SOFA Lite is to make it super-easy to run analyses from Python scripts rather than just via the GUI.

Another goal is to significantly reduce the complexity of packaging SOFA Lite for different operating systems. For example, 90% of the pain of packaging SOFA Statistics has related to its image processing libraries, none of which are really needed now that user-friendly screen-shot software is so widely available. I would love to be able to release a version of SOFA (Lite) that works on the latest versions of the Mac OS (alongside Windows and Linux) and this looks like a good way of making that possible.

So onwards and upwards again 🙂

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