Re: [Gretl-devel] next release
On Fri, 7 Jul 2017, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Fri, 7 Jul 2017, Summers, Peter wrote:
>
> I don't know if this is a high enough priority to try fixing
> before then, but I've had an issue executing a Julia script from
> within gretl.
[...]
(But it turned out that the issue was just that the Julia program
didn't call for any output.)
A brief follow-up, since I realize this could be a bit confusing.
When you execute third-party code via gretl's "foreign" block
apparatus, by default (without the --quiet flag) we give the user
some notice of how things are going. But if you execute a "foreign"
script directly via the gretl GUI, we just show you exactly the
visible output produced by the foreign program -- which might be
nothing at all (as in this case) if no print statements are
included.
Perhaps, if we detect no error condition but get no output, we
should put a statement into the output window instead of leaving it
empty -- something like
"Executed sucessfully, no visible output produced"
Second point: our Julia support seems OK to me, but right now it's a
bit lacking in motivation since nobody has yet come up with an
example where it's actually useful to pass some task to Julia for
execution. If anyone's able to come up with such an example I'll be
glad to put it into the gretl doc on Julia interaction.
Allin