Re: [Gretl-devel] Proposal for function package cleanup

On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, yinung at Gmail wrote: >>>> could you edit your package to make it English-only > > Though I personally think currently 'English-only' is not very good > for me > to promote gretl in Taiwan as well as for Chinese users, I surely will > conform to the decision of the gretl society. I support sven's idea > that it > is a clear example of how we need a way to translate function packages.

We talked about this at the gretl conference in Berlin. Setting up a mechanism for semi-automating the translations of function packages, in the same way as we do for menus, would be a lot of work and we simply don't have the manpower for that. A compromise we agreed on is that localised versions of function packages can be distributed privately. For example, suppose you write a package called "foo.gfn": the version distributed via the gretl server should be English-only. However, nothing stops you from preparing a functonally equivalent "foo_zh.gfn" package in Chinese that you can distribute to your students or make available on a website. In that case, all your students would have to do is: * download the package * run the command "install <path>/foo_zh.gfn --local" (its GUI equivalent is coming soon) I think this is a very reasonable compromise.