Re: [Gretl-devel] A question on eligibility of foreign languages interface packages:the script

On Mon, 5 Oct 2015, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: > On Sun, 4 Oct 2015, oleg_komashko(a)ukr.net wrote: > >> Dear Sven, >> Thanks for hopeful comment. > >> First of all I mean R and Octave, since the are as GNU as Gretl, and the >> only marginal costs are several (dozens) seconds to install. I plan to >> include install.packages(c("pkg1","pkg2",....) into the sample script, so >> the user has only to install R and run the sample script once. > > I take your point, but it would be better if function packages could be > trusted to rely only on gretl and its own dependencies (gnuplot, latex etc). > Otherwise, users would need to maintain pieces of software they don't really > need just to use ONE feature. > > Besides, I would imagine that writing a panel version of the poisson model is > perfectly possible in hansl. [...] I tend to agree with Jack on this. I can imagine that we might want to set up a repository for interesting/useful applications of "foreign" in gretl, but IMO this should be separate from our array of function packages. Allin _______________________________________________ Gretl-devel mailing list Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel