[Gretl-devel] "save as" for function packages

[Allin Cottrell]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> once more I have a little feature request:
>
> In the function package editor it would be nice IMO if for an existing
> package the "save" button were accompanied by a "save as" button.
>
> Scenario (I have just been facing it ;-) :
> You change something in the code, or bump the version number, or
> whatever, and want to save the changed package under a different name
> (in my case, including the changed version number). This doesn't seem
> possible currently.

This relates to something we discussed a while ago, which is still 
unfinished business I'm afraid.  I don't want to enable "Save as" 
in that context (in fact, I deliberately removed it), the reason 
being that we don't want the name of a function package to come 
unstuck from the name of its public interface.  What should happen 
is that the version number gets automatically factored into the 
file name.  I'll do that before we release of 1.6.2, which should 
be soon.

> Apart from that, I'm planning to publish/upload the py4gretl 
> cointegration packages soon. My naive plan is to just tick the 
> "upload when saving" - option and see what happens. Anything I 
> should do before that?

I think that should work, but I should probably run a test to 
confirm that.

Allin.