[Gretl-users] gretl 1.6.4

[Sven Schreiber]

Allin Cottrell schrieb:

> However, I forgot to make this code conditional on userdir being 
> an empty string!   This is now fixed in CVS.
> 
> Should I put out 1.6.5?  

I don't know what the release policy is, but I would tend to answer yes;
the user dir problem should mostly affect existing gretl users, who will
be quite puzzled why they can't get their old settings to work.

In any case I personally would recommend that no new features are
introduced until 1.6.5. If you don't want two releases in such a short
time span, I can give you one or two more bugs that could be squashed in
the meantime... ;-)

...

> I've been assuming that CSIDL_APPDATA is the "correct" place to
> put the gretl userdir, by default.  But actually this directory 
> seems to be doing double duty.  It might be better to split 
> "userdir", with temporary files going under CSIDL_APPDATA and 
> explicitly user-saved files under CSIDL_MYDOCUMENTS.
> 
> As you might imagine, it would probably take some time to get this 
> right, so I'm not about to do it right now.  Moreover, it's not 
> totally obvious to me exactly how the breakdown between the two 
> locations should go.  For example, which one should hold 
> X-12-ARIMA and/or Tramo-related files?  
> 

Hm, I'm not sure if it's worth the effort. Would you then do the
Mac-specifics also? Apart from the fact that new bugs will be introduced
by that switch... IMHO that would be a new feature, and it seems to me
that gretl could use some time to stabilize all the new stuff that has
been added in recent months.

just my 2 €-ct  (can you read the Euro sign in your encoding?)
-sven