Re: [Gretl-devel] Testing help with tramolin.gfn package needed
Am 03.04.2019 um 23:32 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
On Wed, 3 Apr 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> Personally I'm getting errors that I didn't see on
another system. I'm
> not sure if my configuration on the new system is somehow wrong or
> whether there is a deeper issue, possibly some incompatibility with
> Windows 10 (of the package itself or of the Tramo program).
It cannot be Windows 10 per se, since I have tested on another Win10
system where it works fine.
Thanks, as ever, for maintaining a rigorous testing standard! I just
tried the sample script of version 1.11 (2017-01-28) of the tramolin
package on Linux and it ran OK. But I guess that's not very relevant;
I'll have a go on Windows 10 tomorrow.
Thanks Allin. It's not clear to me what triggers the error on one
machine but not on the other. But I noticed that in both cases an empty
text file 'sername.txt' was produced in the respective current work
directory. From Ignacio's code I didn't really understand why it ended
up in those locations, it looked as if it was intended to go into
$tramodir somewhere. But since on both machines the file is created and
is empty, this doesn't seem to be the (sole) reason.
The only thing that caught my attention was that in the relevant
directory paths on the failing machine there was a hyphen character (-).
I guess this _shouldn't_ cause a problem but who knows.
If the error cannot be resolved with a reasonable amount of effort, I
would simply add a warning to the top of the output of the tramolin
package that some errors have been observed, but because it is useful
for some people and working at least sometimes/most of the time it is
still kept around.
thanks
sven