[Gretl-devel] Re: [Gretl-users] Time for a new stable release version 1.6.6? [Was: Error with periodogram]
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, andreas.rosenblad(a)ltv.se wrote:
cottrell(a)wfu.edu @ INTERNET skrev 2007-09-09 21:04:29 :
> On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Javier García wrote:
>
>> I have installed the current snapshot and the problem has
>> dissapeared!!!!!!!
>
> Thanks, Javier. I think we can infer, then, that there was some
> obscure and rarely-triggered problem with my build of the fftw DLL
> for Windows (which was in the gretl package from the 1.6.5
> release until a few days ago).
I think this is a reason to release a new stable version 1.6.6 with this
problem fixed. It is not good to have a last stable release (version 1.6.5)
with this problem.
Unfortunately, CVS is not in my opinion in a releasable state yet. The
main addition that needs ironing out is restricted VECM models, which is
also undocumented in the manual (I'll try and find some time next week to
work on this).
What we _could_ do is ship a modified windows installer which contains the
up-to-date windows dll of fftw, for those people who experience problems.
However, it would be nice to nail this down properly and figure out
exactly which windows versions exhibit the crash with fftw compiled
in-house.
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti