[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.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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