[Gretl-users] cosmetics for 1.6.0

[Allin Cottrell]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote:

>> - similar for "there are no new files on the server right now"
>
> the last message remains non-localized (and it doesn't seem to 
> be in the new .pot)

This is not trivial to fix.  The phrase occurs in a a native 
Windows auxiliary program.  Since the updater should be able to 
update gretl DLLs, it can't be part of gretl itself (at least I 
don't think it can).

> And then, some things I hadn't noticed before:
>
> - I couldn't see how to set a variable to "discrete" in the denmark data
> set. Not that it would make any sense there, but in case you disabled
> discreteness for all time series data, isn't that a little too radical?

It's disabled for variables any of whose values have a 
fractional part.

> - Also with a discrete variable, there seems to be a bug when fitting a
> normal distribution, it's way off (see attached saved graph
> "histogram-discrete.png").

Thanks, I'll take a look at this.

Allin.