Re: [Gretl-devel] 'include' w/o 'open' -- new behavior

With respect to the thread that has been opened this weekend, about the directories for open/save data and scripts. I only want to teel you something about my experience. I have been living quietly for years saving and opening data to /myhome/gretl (my userdir) without any problem. I must say that the projects I worked on were not very "big". On this year I started to work on two "bigger" new projects so I felt the need to organise them in subdirectories. I used for example /myhome/gretl/mybigproject as subdirectory for one of the projects and I also lived peacefully until the project grow so much that I needed to include the scripts in a subdirectory and the data in another subdirectory. I could see that /myhome/gretl/mybigproject/data was not a good place for this data files, as gretl sometimes (maybe always?) could not find them. I also had problems with /myhome/gretl/mybigproject/scripts and /myhome/gretl/mybigproject/db (for the databases). So I studied very carefully the manual and found a not-very-clear explanation of what was happening (in section 4.8 Data file collections): Besides the pre-installed data and scripts that comes with gretl (and specific known collections as Davidson-MacKinnon, Gujarati, etc) gretl follows a particular path to look for new collections of data and scripts: -The program searches in the "system" data directory, the system script directory, the user directory, and all first-level (and only first-level I remark) subdirectories of these. I didn't found this path the most appropiate for me, because I wanted to mantain each of the new projects as subdirectories of /myhome/gretl, but I understood why /myhome/gretl/mybigproject/data was not working and I solved my problem changing this subdirectory to /myhome/gretl/mybigproject-data and the scripts directory to /myhome/gretl/mybigproject-scripts. Both are first-level directories from my userdir (/myhome/gretl) so I have no problem now. I understand that the new concept of a user's "working directory" that Allin is proposing, in my case may allow to define as "working directory" /myhome/gretl/mybigproject/ and so the directory structure I firstly organised may work. I think also that I don't find very useful that gretl searches for new data or script collections in the "system" data dir. or the "system" script dir. since normally only the superuser (root) has writting acces to such places. -- Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza DEPARTAMENTO DE ECONOMÍA APLICADA III (ECONOMETRÍA Y ESTADÍSTICA) UPV/EHU Avda. Lehendakari Aguirre, 83 | 48015 BILBAO T.: +34 946013732 | F.: +34 946013754 www.et.bs.ehu.es