[Gretl-devel] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: contributed package DP: problem in Windows GUI (and a crash along the way)

On Tue, 8 Nov 2022, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 07.11.2022 um 18:18 schrieb Summers, Peter: >> Hi all, >> >> FWIW on Windows 10 Enterprise with Gretl 2022c, "pkg install DP.gfn" >> works fine from the console, as does "include DP.gfn". But I'm also >> not seeing it in my local listing. > > Thanks for checking, Peter. When I restart gretl, first I don't get a > crash on entering "pkg install DP.gfn", either. However, when I have > both the local package listing window and the window with the server > listing open, then typing the command leads to a reproducible crash. Ah, I can reproduce that here. It's now fixed in git. The problem was specific to having the server listing window open when issuing the "pkg install" command. There was an error in the code that scanned the server window to update the status string for the package in question to make it say "Up to date".