[Gretl-devel] Re: CRASH: 'fcast' after 'var'

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 25.06.2019 um 13:24 schrieb Allin Cottrell: >> On Tue, 25 Jun 2019, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: >> >> >>> * we re-instate isnull() and possibly isstring() as well just for this >>> emergency release, and remove them in 2019d, after notifying all package >>> authors. >> The second option sounds good to me. I've checked the gfns: lots of >> them still use isnull() but only two use isstring(), namely GJR-garchm >> and fcModels. We could fix up those two and just reinstate isnull for >> now. > > Is it already decided that there's going to be an emergency release? I > was wondering whether the crash problem should be communicated via the > users list and/or Twitter. Yes, the bug is quite nasty, I think we ought to release soon.