Re: [Gretl-devel] about adding function packages to the menus
Am 19.01.2017 um 15:32 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
On Thu, 19 Jan 2017, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> Secondly, my proposal is that before a package is allowed to appear in
> the menus it would need to pass some additional checks. For example,
> this check could be provided by replicating in the example script some
> known-good result.
I don't like this very much. When you install a package, you give it
explicit permission to show up in the main GUI somewhere, so you can't
claim "nobody told me".
You have a point about the explicit menu permission. And maybe the
relevant threshold shouldn't have to do with the menus. But I think we
agree that the level of quality assurance is different between core
gretl and the contributed packages. And I believe it should be
communicated to users that they're taking a somewhat higher risk with
contributed packages.
In the world of R, my impression is that users are aware that they're
leaving core R when they're using packages from CRAN. For the gretl
world I'm having doubts about this, perhaps because of the extremely
nice GUI integration of packages...
thanks,
sven