[Gretl-users] CVS gretl and gnome

A word of warning for anyone in the habit of building gretl from CVS with gnome support enabled: If you have specific preferences set via the GUI and want to keep them, please take note of them -- I'm afraid you have to re-enter them. This is because I've removed gconf support from gretl. I haven't been following gnome development that closely, and didn't realize how outdated and unloved gconf is until it bit me today: if you ask gconf_client for the value of an integer config variable, it will happily return 0 even if it failed to read anything, without any indication of error. the same plain text ~/.gretl2rc configuration file that's used by non-gnome builds (other than on MS Windows, where we use the Windows registry). Maybe once dconf matures we'll think about using that. -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University, NC