Re: [Gretl-devel] about adding function packages to the menus
On Thu, 19 Jan 2017, Allin Cottrell 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 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.
In most cases, replication is a non-trivial task, that needs to be
descrbed in a reasonable amount of detail, if the package is of some
complexity. I remain convinced that a pdf file describing exactly what is
being done and how would be essential in many cases, if not most.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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