Re: [Gretl-devel] about adding function packages to the menus

On Thu, 19 Jan 2017, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 19.01.2017 um 15:32 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: >> On Thu, 19 Jan 2017, Sven Schreiber wrote: >> >>> Secondly, my proposal is that before a package is allowed to appear in >>> the menus it would need to pass some additional checks. For example, >>> this check could be provided by replicating in the example script some >>> known-good result. >> >> I don't like this very much. When you install a package, you give it >> explicit permission to show up in the main GUI somewhere, so you can't >> claim "nobody told me". > > You have a point about the explicit menu permission. And maybe the relevant > threshold shouldn't have to do with the menus. But I think we agree that > the level of quality assurance is different between core gretl and the > contributed packages. And I believe it should be communicated to users that > they're taking a somewhat higher risk with contributed packages. Or lower! Imagine contributions by, say, J Davidson, T Sargent or J MacKinnon. I'd trust their code much more than mine! ;)

> In the world of R, my impression is that users are aware that they're > leaving core R when they're using packages from CRAN. For the gretl world > I'm having doubts about this, perhaps because of the extremely nice GUI > integration of packages... Hmmm, I don't quite agree with this. Most R users i know just type "library(foobarbaz)" away without even thinking about it.