[Gretl-devel] gretl on mac os10.5

[Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:

> El Tuesday 27 November 2007 04:00:56 Allin Cottrell escribió:
>>
>> I'll be travelling for 10 days or so, leaving the day after
>> tomorrow.  So for me it's a question of release what we have
>> tomorrow or release in a couple of weeks.
>>
>> I'm open as to which we do.  On the one hand it's a long time
>> since the last release and we've accumulated a large number of
>> bug-fixes; on the other, this is a point in the academic year when
>> people are not likely to be starting things, and looking for a
>> shiny new gretl release.  Thoughts?
>>
>
> I also think it's a long time since last release. In particular here in Bilbao
> there are people waiting ansiously for the new official version (It will be
> the first official version fully translated to Basque).
>
> BTW don't you think that with all these bug-fixes and new advanced features it
> deserve to be numbered 1.7 (or even 2.0, since it is completely different
> from 1.0)?

As long as the only pending issue is the Heckit thing, I'm ok with 
releasing now. I've just committed a tiny addition to the help xml files 
for the "heckit" command, in English and Italian. If my Spanish had been 
up to par, I'd have saved Ignacio the work, but I'm sorry I don't feel 
confident enough.

As for the version number, 1.7 may well be warranted IMO. On the other 
hand, major version number changes are usually associated with backward 
incompatibilities in the library; not that libgretl is very much used 
outside of gretl itself (that I know of), but I still think it's nicer to 
follow established conventions.


Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche

r.lucchetti at univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti