[Gretl-users] Time for a new stable release version 1.6.6? [Was: Error with periodogram]

[Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, andreas.rosenblad at ltv.se wrote:

> cottrell at wfu.edu @ INTERNET skrev 2007-09-09 21:04:29 :
>
>> On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Javier García wrote:
>>
>>> I have installed the current snapshot and the problem has
>>> dissapeared!!!!!!!
>>
>> Thanks, Javier.  I think we can infer, then, that there was some
>> obscure and rarely-triggered problem with my build of the fftw DLL
>> for Windows (which was in the gretl package from the 1.6.5
>> release until a few days ago).
>
>
>
> I think this is a reason to release a new stable version 1.6.6 with this
> problem fixed. It is not good to have a last stable release (version 1.6.5)
> with this problem.

Unfortunately, CVS is not in my opinion in a releasable state yet. The 
main addition that needs ironing out is restricted VECM models, which is 
also undocumented in the manual (I'll try and find some time next week to 
work on this).

What we _could_ do is ship a modified windows installer which contains the 
up-to-date windows dll of fftw, for those people who experience problems. 
However, it would be nice to nail this down properly and figure out 
exactly which windows versions exhibit the crash with fftw compiled 
in-house.

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

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