Re: [Gretl-devel] gretl data installers

I noticed recently that the self-extracting (exe) installers for our textbook data packages weren't working properly on Windows 8, with 64-bit gretl installed. What's supposed to happen is that the exe picks up the path to the gretl installation from the Windows registry and offers it as the default location, but I saw the default come up empty. I think this must be due to the fact that on 64-bit Windows there are two versions or modes of the registry (32- and 64-bit); apparently our (quite old) installers were just looking at the 32-bit registry and hence not finding the entry for gretl. I've now rebuilt the installers using current Inno Setup and tested on Windows 8. I think they should also do the right thing on earlier (and 32-bit) Windows, but it would be nice to have that confirmed. If anyone is able to test, please see (since SF is down): http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/ For example, http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/wooldridge_data.exe