On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, yinung at Gmail wrote:

could you edit your package to make it English-only

Though I personally think currently 'English-only' is not very good for me
to promote gretl in Taiwan as well as for Chinese users, I surely will
conform to the decision of the gretl society. I support sven's idea that it
is a clear example of how we need a way to translate function packages.

We talked about this at the gretl conference in Berlin. Setting up a mechanism for semi-automating the translations of function packages, in the same way as we do for menus, would be a lot of work and we simply don't have the manpower for that.

A compromise we agreed on is that localised versions of function packages can be distributed privately. For example, suppose you write a package called "foo.gfn": the version distributed via the gretl server should be English-only. However, nothing stops you from preparing a functonally equivalent "foo_zh.gfn" package in Chinese that you can distribute to your students or make available on a website. In that case, all your students would have to do is:

* download the package
* run the command "install <path>/foo_zh.gfn --local" (its GUI equivalent
  is coming soon)

I think this is a very reasonable compromise.

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  Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
  Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)

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