Re: [Gretl-devel] Belated response to Sven on function packages

Allin Cottrell schrieb: The versions 0.9.2 of two of the three files are on the server now, no more version numbers in the filenames. They should fail less often now. The one that is missing is py4gretl_vecdecomp, because I found out that gretl seems to have a 4KB line length limit (regarding script files invoked with the "run" command) -- which is understandable, but sometimes breaks the (admittedly) clumsy way how py4gretl_vecdecomp passes the calculated time series from Numpy back to gretl in a temporary text file. Would that limitation be easy to lift, or should I think of a way to work around that? There are still issues when creating new packages, this area still seems a little fragile. Often I need to restart gretl, otherwise gretl isn't showing me the necessary helper functions to package (although I have run them of course). Or sometimes gretl uses a helper function of a previously executed package instead of a newer version helper function that was run afterwards. I think if you really want to make the helper functions of existing packages available easily (i.e., w/o copy & paste), the namespaces (or what you want to call it) should be separated: So if f1() is a helper function in a loaded package called "superpackage", and a (possibly different) function f1() has been run by the user, the function chooser for packaging should label them for example as "f1 (superpackage)" and "f1". Or just don't make the helper functions of packages public, interested people can still copy&paste and run them quite easily. All IMHO of course. Some other misc. stuff I came across (all on Windows, pretty recent snapshot): * why is "#" in a matrix definition line invalid? * closing function package call window by window close cross doesn't work * with py4gretl_vecrestrict, I again get some internal function matrices in the session window (alpha_pattern and beta_pattern) * IIRC some snapshots ago saving files with a script into "./" would save them into "c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\<loginname>" and now it seems to be "c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\<loginname>\Eigene Dateien". Has that changed or am I mixing things up? * out of curiosity: has the behavior of printf in combination with a matrix changed? Earlier I believe it would print out all elements, now only the first one. Have a good weekend, sven