[Gretl-devel] Proposal for function package cleanup

Hi, [First of all, this goes especially to Henrique and Marcin, as we seem to be a little bit responsible for package supervision. But I thought it doesn't hurt if the gretl-devel list also reads it.] Following up on my post from November "Possible redundancy of some function packages?" and the ensuing discussion (see http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-users/2014-November/010422.html), I now propose to really do something about the following packages, and sometimes that means to remove them. If you don't voice your opinion now, my suggestions will become reality. 1) clustered_ols (Pigini) -- could serve as a nice example, but doesn't have to be a package for that, should be moved as a script to the exercise script collection. Read: should be removed from the package list! 2) cnumber (Monsueto) -- maybe I'm confusing things, but could this be redundant when the stuff that Lee just presented at the conference is packaged? (I guess it could stay until then.) 3) fgls (Yang) -- There was no feedback on what it actually does, should be removed. 4) GHegy / HEGY_test (Diaz / Lucchetti) -- Guys, could you please get your act together on this? It is ridiculous that two core gretl people have competing or conflicting packages. It almost looks to me as if we could remove HEGY_test by Jack because GHegy by Ignacio is a superset? If no one intervenes, this should be the course of action. 5) fcModels / HoltWinters (Yang / Diaz) -- Again, cooperation would be good. But both packages were updated relatively recently, which is also a good sign. Don't know what else to do with this. 6) growth (Bala) -- I didn't mention this last time, but now it seems to me this functionality is too small for a package (sorry, but this regresses on a trend and just gets the coefficient, unless I'm missing something). Should be removed. 7) JB (Yang) -- there was feedback and a small discussion last time, which in my interpretation also boils down to: should be removed. 8) MWU / mwu / mwu_dummy (Yang): Yi-Nung, please consolidate these very similar things into one package with different options. Please respond to this message, otherwise I propose to remove two of these three packages. This list is probably not exhaustive, there seem to be new packages, but I don't have time right now to look at all of them. thanks, sven