Re: [Gretl-devel] Problem Installing/updating function file on Mac OS X Lion/Snow Leopard
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Berend Hasselman wrote:
I'm testing the latest gretl snapshot on Max OS X Lion
10.7.2 and Max OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8. On Lion I had no
function files installed.
1.
I try to install the gig package from the server without
realising that gig is part of Gretl.app. Gretl downloads the
package (so I assume since I'm seeing a progress bar) but
then gives the message "Unspecified error".
But now comes the weird thing: menu Help, Check addons says
that gig 2.1 is installed. So does File, Function files, On
local machine (But shows version 2.0 for Function files, On
server)
The thing is that gig is now an "addon", which is treated
specially, and not a regular contributed function package. The
last version of gig as a regular function package was indeed
2.0 (January 2011), but it shouldn't be there any more, among
the "on server" packages. I didn't notice that it was still
there, but now I have removed it.
Inspecting
Gretl.app/Contents/Resources/share/gretl/functions/gig
reveals that some files have been updated (dated Yesterday)
but not all (they have a date (mm-dd-yyyy) 13-10-2011).
That's their date as dd-mm-yyyy; gig was last packaged on
October 13 of this year.[*]
2.
Trying to install a not installed function file gives the
error message "Couldn't find <package name> for gretl 1.9.7"
(this is regardless of Snow Leopard or Lion). Gretl doesn't
seem to take the <minver> field into account.
Which package were you trying to install? I just tried a
couple of new ones and they installed OK. As another check I
removed my local copy of the SVAR package, went to /Help/
Check for addons, and chose to install SVAR. That went OK too,
but I'll try testing on OS X.
3.
The pdf for gig mentions version 2.2! But gig.gfn has the
version set to 2.1.
2.1 is the current version of gig in CVS, so "2.2" must be an
error in the pdf file.
Allin
[*] Here's listing produced by "unzip -l gig.zip", from the
zipfile on sourceforge:
Archive: gig.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
0 10-13-11 16:18 gig/
45195 10-13-11 16:18 gig/gig.gfn
552775 10-13-11 16:18 gig/gig.pdf
0 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/
315 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/example1.inp
588 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/README
472 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/example4.inp
673 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/example3.inp
204640 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/IBM.gdt
326 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/test.inp
299 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/ged.inp
79046 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/msft.gdt
326 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/test3.inp
1902 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/example7.inp
466 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/test2.inp
701 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/example6.inp
511 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/smorgasbord.inp
595 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/example5.inp
537 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/example2.inp
360 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/test4.inp
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