[Gretl-devel] nasty bug in gretl 1.7.3

[Allin Cottrell]

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> in principle I'm all for using the current source (cvs) for a 
> new release, I don't see why other improvements shouldn't be 
> included in 1.7.4. Of course there may be new bugs introduced by 
> the changes, but c'est la vie.
> 
> however, in general I would welcome a little more formal policy 
> with respect to changes that are backwards-incompatible by 
> design...

I take your point, but the only such change in current CVS is the 
handling of string variables, and that's the main reason why I was 
hesitant to base a new release on current CVS without further 
discussion.

I'm happy to listen to suggestions on a policy for future use.

Allin.