[Gretl-devel] Re: CRASH: 'fcast' after 'var'
Am 25.06.2019 um 13:17 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
On Tue, 25 Jun 2019, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
> I wouldn't be against an emergency release. The only problem would be
> the removal of isnull() and isstring(); I don't know how many function
> packages could be broken.
For example, three addons were broken: gig, HIP and ivpanel all used
isnull(); this is now fixed in git, but either
Hm, I wonder who the author of these packages is... hehe
* we check all the gfn packages we have on the server and modify
them
automatically, or
A little error-prone I'm afraid. But it would be good to have an
overview of the affected packages anyway.
* we re-instate isnull() and possibly isstring() as well just for
this
emergency release, and remove them in 2019d, after notifying all package
authors.
Probably a good idea.
Was there any deprecation warning printed out regarding isnull etc.? (I
mean when executing them.)
thanks
sven