[Gretl-announce] gretl 1.7.6 released

See http://gretl.sourceforge.net Mostly a bug-fix release, with incremental improvements in functionality. In particular we have solved (we think) several issues with saving/opening session files, and with the use of list arguments to user-defined functions. The enhancements include speed-ups and tweaks to the graphical interface. 7/30/2008 version 1.7.6 - Fix bug: revise the way that list arguments to user-defined functions are handled, to avoid potential namespace collisions - Add menu item: Variable/Normality test - Add $xlist accessor: gets the list of regressors from the last model - Add $version accessor: gets the gretl version - Add $windows accessor (1 if running on MS Windows, else 0) - Add $datatype accessor (see function help) - Remove some redundant preferences items - Fix bugs 1996156, 1996161, 2017872, 2027121 - MLE fixes - Fix for RTF output from GUI model table - Function package help: ensure this is not truncated - Fix bug: incorrect generation of NAs when doing "genr unitdum" on a sub-sampled panel dataset - Add new panel data functions: pmax, pmin, pnobs - Internal: recode parts of the gretl GUI to avoid dependence on deprecated GTK APIs - Speed-ups for loops containing genr commands - Several fixes for reading and writing gretl session files - Function packages: add facility to append a sample script - Enhancements for GUI function-packager - File dialogs: try to ensure that focus falls back to the right window when such windows are closed -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University, NC