[Gretl-devel] Octave support

This is now working OK on Linux and Windows (and probably OS X), but is not yet documented. You can stick Octave script into a gretl "foreign" block with "language=octave", and can exchange matrices (as with Ox) via the pre-defined Octave functions gretl_loadmat(name1) gretl_export(matrix, name2) The first of these matches up with mwrite(matrix, name1) in gretl, and the second pairs with matrix = mread(name2) in gretl. Now we need a nice example of the use of Octave to illustrate the yet-to-be-written entry for the User's Guide. Any suggestions? I tried looking in octave's "econometrics" package, version 1.0.8, (written by Michael Creel) for examples, but ran into some problems. The script "mle_example.m" in that package fails under current Octave (3.2.3). This is something we must strive to avoid with gretl (i.e. inadvertent breakage of add-on packages). I've trying to guard against that by setting up an auto-checker for all the function packages available via the gretl server, which I run whenever a new release is coming up. Allin