Re: [Gretl-devel] about adding function packages to the menus
On Thu, 19 Jan 2017, Sven Schreiber wrote:
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My first suggestion therefore is to include the "author" field not only in
the package list in the "on server" window, but also in the list window
displaying the locally installed packages. This should make it more
transparent that these are _contributed_ packages, and not core gretl. (Also
the ego of the authors might benefit a little.)
Yes, good idea.
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 agree with Jack that this would be awkward to implement. However, I
also agree with you that including replication of known good results
in a package is something that should be encouraged, even if not
required. It might be worth adding a field to the gfn specification to
specify a replication/test script (which I guess could be the same
thing as the sample script but might be distinct). That would make it
possible to detect right off if a given package has such a thing.
Allin