I'm thinking that it's probably time to put out gretl 1.9.0, which, in light of discussions here a while back, will be the first (and possibly the last, but we'll see) in a series leading towards gretl 2.0. (And as such it will spit out warnings for script constructions that are deprecated and will be removed in 2.0.) Looking at the change log, we seem to have accumulated enough fixes and features to justify a release: http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog.html

I think the Riccardo's suggestion is very good: Em 28 de abril de 2010 Riccardo <r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it&gt; escreveu: (...) I suggest that once that is done, we name that version 1.9.9 and we go > into "feature freeze" mode (that is, only bugfixes). After a reasonable > time, we release 2.0.

I'm thinking that it's probably time to put out gretl 1.9.0, which, in light of discussions here a while back, will be the first (and possibly the last, but we'll see) in a series leading towards gretl 2.0.

script constructions that are deprecated and will be removed in 2.0.)

Looking at the change log, we seem to have accumulated enough fixes and features to justify a release: http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog.html

If anyone knows of any show-stopper bugs that really should be fixed before releasing 1.9.0, please speak up. And I'd be grateful if people could find the time to beat on current CVS/snapshot in case any recent changes have broken things.

On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Allin Cottrell schrieb: > >> >> If anyone knows of any show-stopper bugs that really should be >> fixed before releasing 1.9.0, please speak up. And I'd be grateful >> if people could find the time to beat on current CVS/snapshot >> in case any recent changes have broken things. >> > > With today's cvs version I'm getting a new error (I think it's new, but > it could be that it's triggered by a constellation of input that I > haven't used so far in gretl): > > Pressing OK in the VECM dialog gives an error dialog window: "VECM: Rank > 0 out ouf bounds." (translated back from German) I didn't specify the > rank to be 0, rather a positive number, of course. > > Fairly severe, I'd say... Confirmed here. I just committed a fix to CVS; however, my familiarity with the GUI code is very limited, so consider it a quick and dirty hack. When Allin has the opportunity to work on this, he'll certainly fix things up properly in a different way.

towards gretl 2.0. (And as such it will spit out warnings for script constructions that are deprecated and will be removed in 2.0.)

On Sat, 1 May 2010, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Allin Cottrell schrieb: > >> towards gretl 2.0. (And as such it will spit out warnings for >> script constructions that are deprecated and will be removed in >> 2.0.) >> > I noticed the "end if" versus "endif" warning, which kind of surprised > me after the short discussion we had a couple of weeks ago. (My argument > was that users in the future would have a hard time remembering the > non-blank "endif" and the with-blank "end anythingelse" syntax.) This is to do with the new (not yet in CVS) command interpreter. In the process of writing a new, more "logical" and efficient interpreter, it quickly became apparent that "end if" is a nasty bodge that I do not want to have to support.