Re: [Gretl-devel] Problem Installing/updating function file on Mac OS X Lion/Snow Leopard

On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Berend Hasselman wrote: > I'm testing the latest gretl snapshot on Max OS X Lion > 10.7.2 and Max OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8. On Lion I had no > function files installed. > > 1. > > I try to install the gig package from the server without > realising that gig is part of Gretl.app. Gretl downloads the > package (so I assume since I'm seeing a progress bar) but > then gives the message "Unspecified error". > > But now comes the weird thing: menu Help, Check addons says > that gig 2.1 is installed. So does File, Function files, On > local machine (But shows version 2.0 for Function files, On > server) The thing is that gig is now an "addon", which is treated specially, and not a regular contributed function package. The last version of gig as a regular function package was indeed 2.0 (January 2011), but it shouldn't be there any more, among the "on server" packages. I didn't notice that it was still there, but now I have removed it.

> Inspecting > Gretl.app/Contents/Resources/share/gretl/functions/gig > reveals that some files have been updated (dated Yesterday) > but not all (they have a date (mm-dd-yyyy) 13-10-2011). That's their date as dd-mm-yyyy; gig was last packaged on October 13 of this year.[*]

> 2. > > Trying to install a not installed function file gives the > error message "Couldn't find <package name> for gretl 1.9.7" > (this is regardless of Snow Leopard or Lion). Gretl doesn't > seem to take the <minver> field into account. Which package were you trying to install? I just tried a couple of new ones and they installed OK. As another check I removed my local copy of the SVAR package, went to /Help/ Check for addons, and chose to install SVAR. That went OK too, but I'll try testing on OS X.