[Gretl-users] Please test! (was Re: gretl 1.6.4)

[Allin Cottrell]

On Tue, 15 May 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> > Yes, agreed.  I've fixed the userdir issue (I think) and added 
> > what Andreas requested (which was quite self-contained and 
> > unlikely to break anything else).  Since that involved a few new 
> > strings I've also updated .pot and .po files.
> 
> so does that mean the translations should be updated as well? -- 
> I guess so.

Yup, if you have time.

> > Now: please beat on the Windows snapshot and see if it's OK!  
> > Thanks.
> 
> I only found trivial issues (so far;-):
> 
> 1) the installer is 9MB, on the website it says 7MB

OK, fixed.

> 2) when I select the new menu item "nonparametric tests", I get 
> the same error dialog twice ("no suitable data...")

Fixed.

> 3) when I run a (py4gretl) function script, the session symbol 
> window is automatically closed -- but this is better than 
> before, because no spurious matrices appear anymore!

We'll have another go at that for the next "real" release (after 
the upcoming fix release).

> Some days ago I had the unpleasant experience that gretl "ate" 
> some of my variables, after I had created lags and done other 
> stuff, but I can't reproduce that anymore. I think an error in a 
> function package also had an influence. When it happens again, 
> I'll try to track it down.

Thanks, please do.

> W.r.t. the discussion about storage locations: actually I'm 
> wondering about the use of the "current working directory" as 
> it's currently presented as an option in the preferences. You 
> warned that it may not be writable; so what's the use case for 
> it anyway? (If it's abolished there would be one preference pane 
> less.)

This is a useful thing if you're launching gretl from an xterm 
(which I usually am).  However, maybe it should be suppressed in 
the Preferences dialog on Windows?  On the other hand, I could 
_imagine_ somebody setting up a desktop shortcut to gretl with a 
specific working directory and using this feature -- has anyone 
actually done that?

Allin.