10:59 a.m.
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)
This also the case on Snow Leopard.
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).
Before trying the install of gig from the server in Gretl.app (regardless of Lion or Snow
Leopard) all these files are dated Yesterday.
Initially I thought the problem was Lion specific but it isn't.
Gretl is trying to install an older version of gig on top of a newer version.
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.
3.
The pdf for gig mentions version 2.2! But gig.gfn has the version set to 2.1
Berend
8:48 p.m.
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.
3.
The pdf for gig mentions version 2.2! But gig.gfn has the
version set to 2.1.
2.1 is the current version of gig in CVS, so "2.2" must be an
error in the pdf file.
Allin
[*] Here's listing produced by "unzip -l gig.zip", from the
zipfile on sourceforge:
Archive: gig.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
0 10-13-11 16:18 gig/
45195 10-13-11 16:18 gig/gig.gfn
552775 10-13-11 16:18 gig/gig.pdf
0 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/
315 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/example1.inp
588 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/README
472 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/example4.inp
673 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/example3.inp
204640 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/IBM.gdt
326 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/test.inp
299 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/ged.inp
79046 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/msft.gdt
326 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/test3.inp
1902 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/example7.inp
466 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/test2.inp
701 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/example6.inp
511 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/smorgasbord.inp
595 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/example5.inp
537 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/example2.inp
360 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/test4.inp
-------- -------
889727 20 files
9:05 p.m.
On 07-12-2011, at 21:48, Allin Cottrell wrote:
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.
I che
> 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.[*]
Oops, I should have written dd-mm-yyyy).
> 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.
I apparently didn't have the addon SVAR. I did Help/Check for addons and successfully
installed it.
But for example I don't have function file moran installed. (Files, Function files, On
server)
When I click install I get the message "Couldn't find moran for gretl
1.9.7".
Berend
9:41 p.m.
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Berend Hasselman wrote:
>> 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.
>
I apparently didn't have the addon SVAR. I did Help/Check
for addons and successfully installed it.
That's good to hear.
But for example I don't have function file moran installed.
(Files, Function files, On server) When I click install I
get the message "Couldn't find moran for gretl 1.9.7".
I just tried that one here and it installed OK. I'll have to
try on OS X.
I should perhaps explain the "1.9.7" business: if you're
running gretl M.N.P-cvs then when you try to d/l an addon
gretl sends a version number of M.N.P+1 to the server. This
allows addon writers who want to make use of a new-in-CVS
feature to give their package a "minver" equal to the next
release.
But this shouldn't apply at all to moran.gfn, which is a
regular function package and not an addon. Hmm. I'll look into
it.
Allin
9:52 p.m.
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Berend Hasselman wrote:
> But for example I don't have function file moran installed. (Files,
> Function files, On server) When I click install I get the message "Couldn't
> find moran for gretl 1.9.7".
But this shouldn't apply at all to moran.gfn, which is a regular function
package and not an addon. Hmm. I'll look into it.
OK, found and fixed the bug: this happened if you first used
the "Check addons" dialog then switched to the "Function
packages on server" dialog: in that case clicking Install
invoked the wrong callback.
Allin
1:16 p.m.
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> The pdf for gig mentions version 2.2! But gig.gfn has the
> version set to 2.1.
2.1 is the current version of gig in CVS, so "2.2" must be an
error in the pdf file.
It is, my mistake. I had planned to do some more work on gig, but then
couldn't find time for it and I just ended up doing some work on
thre manual and very little work on the code; then I forgot to change the
tex \date{} back to 2.1. To be precise, if we had a third digit I believe
the most correct version for what gig is now should be 2.1.2,
2.1 is ok, I guess, but at this point we may well change the spec file and
call the current state of gig 2.2, so that the tex file does not "go back
in time", so to speak. Allin?
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti
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