[Gretl-devel] source news

A follow-up to http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-devel/2015-July/005882.html (which still applies as of this writing). Some new things in the gretl source since sourceforge CVS went down: * Fix the bug noted by Sven in http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-devel/2015-July/005880.html * Add a new square() function (documented) with an optional argument to generate cross-products as well as squares. Retire the old xpx() function but preserve the name as an alias for square() with the cross-product option activated. * Add a seasonals() function (documented) with two optional arguments, the first to specify a period to omit and the second to specify centering of the seasonal dummies. * "vif" command: lose the not-very-useful info on X'X that we've printed to date, and substitute the Belsley-Kuh-Welsch variance decomposition table, as advocated by Lee Adkins at the Berlin gretl conference. * GUI function package editor: add check for unsaved changes under "Extra properties". Do more checking and give more feedback when saving a package in zip format. * Function package browser: add a toolbar item ("index" icon, tooltip "Package registry") to show which packages are registered to appear on which menus, with the option of removing them. * Numerous "internal" tweaks to GUI function package apparatus in the interest of greater robustness. * Overwrite check on saving to file: switch to the built-in GTK API, maybe catch more cases where overwriting should be flagged? * Updated Romanian translation (thanks, Mihaela!) Allin