[Gretl-devel] Re: CRASH: 'fcast' after 'var'
On Tue, 25 Jun 2019, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jun 2019, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
> I wouldn't be against an emergency release. The only problem would be the
> removal of isnull() and isstring(); I don't know how many function packages
> could be broken.
For example, three addons were broken: gig, HIP and ivpanel all used isnull();
this is now fixed in git, but either
* we check all the gfn packages we have on the server and modify them
automatically, or
* we re-instate isnull() and possibly isstring() as well just for this
emergency release, and remove them in 2019d, after notifying all package
authors.
The second option sounds good to me. I've checked the gfns: lots of
them still use isnull() but only two use isstring(), namely GJR-garchm
and fcModels. We could fix up those two and just reinstate isnull for
now.
Allin