{"id":572,"date":"2011-01-23T22:57:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T02:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2011-01-23T22:57:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T02:57:33","slug":"0-9-25-upgrade-checking-improved-recoding-misc-bug-fixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/0-9-25-upgrade-checking-improved-recoding-misc-bug-fixes\/","title":{"rendered":"0.9.25 upgrade checking; improved recoding; misc bug fixes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest changes this release is behind the scenes &#8211; the folders SOFA Statistics is stored in have changed from &#8220;sofa&#8221; to &#8220;sofastats&#8221; to make them more distinct (there are other sofa programs ;-)). This was something important to get done before the version 1.0 release. Although this is a good change for the long-term it means users upgrading from 0.9.24 and below will need to rename their \/home\/username\/sofa folder to \/home\/username\/sofastats if they wish to work with old data or settings. For Ubuntu users, it is also important to manually uninstall previous versions of SOFA first so that &#8220;sofastats&#8221; can overwrite the application icon put there originally by &#8220;sofa&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>More noticeable, is the change to version upgrade checking. Auto-checking for any version upgrades is now the default. The goal is to help users stay up-to-date with bug fixes, improvements etc. Users can disable this feature by selecting the &#8220;No checking&#8221; option, or only auto-check for major upgrades. This feature only reads the contents of a small text file on the sofastatistics.com domain containing the latest version number.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SOFA suggests names more likely to be valid when user selects a file for importing.<\/li>\n<li>Can now import csv files with a txt extension.<\/li>\n<li>MySQL and PostgreSQL can now accept blank passwords.<\/li>\n<li>Better message for user if comtypes problem. <\/li>\n<li>Windows and Mac versions will no longer accept being launched with Python 2.7 and will give useful messages about fixing the problem. For Windows, the importance of installing the site-packages to python26 rather than python27 is explained.<\/li>\n<li>Mac version uses new, easier-to-install library to connect to MySQL databases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The main series of bug fixes relate to recoding data and making new data tables or redesigning them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed numerous recode bugs &#8211; mostly to do with application of recoded value labels.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed bug when making a new table with an existing name. Now stays open to give user choice as to what to do next e.g. change table name.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed misc bugs when deleting\/adding\/renaming tables while a database other than the default SOFA database is selected.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed bug running frequency table using MySQL where the category items are long integers.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed bug where Data List report selected and then the database is changed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ideally, the next release should be version 1.0.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest changes this release is behind the scenes &#8211; the folders SOFA Statistics is stored in have changed from &#8220;sofa&#8221; to &#8220;sofastats&#8221; to make them more distinct (there are other sofa programs ;-)). This was something important to get done before the version 1.0 release. 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