Re: [Gretl-devel] time for 1.9.8?
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Lee Adkins wrote:
The main estimators "missing" are the various simulated mle
and such.
gretl is already competent in the main categories, wls, iv, gmm, mle, nls.
This is not a big deal for me, but as models get fancier, these
techniques will be used more. Whether this is better done as an addon or
in C I can't say.
There may well be a case for MCMC in C.
> * Major changes in the GUI [...]
>
> The biggest problem I have with the GUI is window proliferation. As it
is now, in a few minutes you end up with a dozen open windows to sort
through and this is clunky. Is there a way to introduce tabs into the
script editor and perhaps the output windows?
That's worth thinking about and experimenting with, yes.
> * Purge of bugs and update/completion of documentation: Here I
can
> really get on board. One conception of gretl 2.0 is that it has
> achieved a degree of maturity where we have squashed as many bugs as
> we can find on an extended period of testing, and have documented in
> a reasonably comprehensible and cross-referenced form all that the
> program can do.
>
>
This should be the first priority. The documentation is excellent in what
it covers, but it suffers three problems.
1. It is not complete.
2. It is hard to use because it is not sufficiently
cross-referenced. Half the stuff I'm looking for is covered in the User
Guide the other half in the Command Reference and they don't communicate
with each other.
Agreed, but unfortunately it's hard if not impossible to get
seamless cross-referencing across distinct PDF files. Does anyone
have a suggestion other than creating a whopping great PDF
containing both the Guide and the Reference?
Should the User Guide be modularlized in order to make it easier to
add
entries to the Econometric Methods section?
Well, those "methods" chapters are separate TeX files, so I'd say
it's pretty much modular as is: it's trivial to drop in a new
chapter if one becomes available.
I'd like to see a way to add documented examples that can be
accessed from
links with the command and the user reference.
There should be some PDF magic that makes that possible. Any PDF
jockeys out there?
Allin