Am 06.11.2014 um 14:40 schrieb Henrique Andrade:
Em 5 de novembro de 2005, Allin escreveu:
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I won't go into all the specifics -- although I think you're right
-- but rather I'll address the general issue here.
We could really do with some editoral control over the function
packages. Up till now we have been totally "laissez faire", but if
the packages on the server are supposed to be a showcase for adding
to gretl's built-in functionality they need to be pruned and
consolidated. I wonder if we could assemble a committee of 2 or 3
members to work on this.
I would like to be one of them. I really like to test that kind of stuff :-)
Great!
One other thought: some of the current packages that are strictly
redundant might nonetheless be preserved in some form as nice
examples of scripting. For example, Claudia Pigini's
"clustered_ols". Maybe there should be an "example scripts" area
separate from the function package area?
Dear Allin, I think the introduction of an "example scripts" area is a
very good idea. We could place it inside the "Tools" menu naming it with
something like "Examples and books/articles replications".
We already have quite a few example scripts under Data/Scripts/Exercise
files (re-translated from German right now). And in principle maybe it's
not a bad idea that users cannot upload stuff there on their own, when
we're talking about _examples_ that should at least work.
So AFAICS the change would be to transform the concerned packages back
into pure scripts and move them to the examples/exercise location.
thanks,
sven