Re: [Gretl-devel] again on foreign repository
On Fri, 9 Oct 2015, oleg_komashko(a)ukr.net wrote:
Dear all,
It seems, the participants of
[Gretl-devel] A question on eligibility of foreign languages interface packages
thread agreed on a separate repository for packages using foreign languages,
but I haven't catch whether such repo would be established.
The script I sent is just a sample.
I could supply, e.g. 30 kinds of exponential smoothing with model autoselection,
arfima with autoselection, GARCH structure autoselection, multivariate
GARCH assortment, r.e. tobit, ordered f.e. logit literally in few days
Some "green" students at PhD level may have perverse push to
switch the soft. Think, it's inadmissible
I think you should act in accordance to the spirit of free software.
What in my mind *has* been established is that packages contained in the
official gretl repository should not rely on third-party software, free or
proprietary, other than the programs gretl depends on structurally
(gnuplot and, to a lesser extent, latex).
If you think it useful to provide to the general public packages that
don't meet this requirement, you're free to set up your own web page to
distribute them. I wouldn't see anything wrong in that.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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