[Gretl-devel] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: contributed package DP: problem in Windows GUI (and a crash along the way)
On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 12:43 PM Sven Schreiber
<sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de> wrote:
Am 08.11.2022 um 17:45 schrieb Cottrell, Allin:
>
> You need to run gretl.exe with the --debug flag, as described in
> section 50.1 of the User's Guide. Then you'll get a console window
> showing what gretl writes to stderr.
OK, I think we're getting there, here's what gretl is claiming when the
listing window is opened:
duplicated function package: DP.gfn 1.3
C:\Users\<...>\AppData\Roaming\gretl\functions\DPB [first instance found]
C:\Users\<...>\AppData\Roaming\gretl\functions [duplicate]
I had already quietly speculated whether DP and DPB would be too similar
as names, but I found the idea quite far-fetched because I thought a
machine/software wouldn't care as long as the names aren't exactly
identical (up to lower vs. upper casing)...
Well, we were trying for a shortcut in the duplication check, and it
turns out it failed for a package with a name of less than 3
characters in length. That's now fixed in git.
BTW this was not Windows-specific. For DP not to appear in the listing
you had to have DPB installed, at version 1.3 to match DP version 1.3.
Allin