Re: [Gretl-devel] Proposal for function package cleanup
(Yi-Nung [on cc:], are you on the gretl-devel list? If not, would it be
possible to join, since you are a package author? Thanks. If you reply,
could you keep the devel-list address on cc: please [reply-to-all].)
Am 16.06.2015 um 19:32 schrieb Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza:
El 16/06/15 a las 18:49, Sven Schreiber escribió:
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> 5) fcModels / HoltWinters (Yang / Diaz) -- Again, cooperation would be
> good. But both packages were updated relatively recently, which is
> also a good sign. Don't know what else to do with this.
With respect to this, I see that Yi-Nung, by one side is nesting my
package with their other ones, what I think is very logical.
So does this mean that fcModels is the more general one and that
HoltWinters is redundant? Or would this be a case for different
implementations that are both useful?
And for the other side I see that Yi-Nung now is putting
chinese+english
strings in the GUI and in the output of the fcModels calculations and it
is a clear example of how we need a way to translate function packages.
Well let me not get into the translation issue here. But I agree that
for public packages there should not be an ad-hoc mixture of languages,
it should be English only. (I haven't personally checked the package,
just saw what Ignacio said.)
Yi-Nung, could you edit your package to make it English-only? If you
need Chinese in there for teaching (or for whatever), you could have a
private version of your package in a different language. I know this
isn't optimal, but it's the best compromise that I can see currently.
cheers,
sven