[Gretl-users] Re: sourceforge offline/hiccup - "no function packages found"
On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 6:11 AM Sven Schreiber
<sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de> wrote:
at least twice during the last couple of days gretl tells me it doesn't
find any function packages when looking on the server. This seems to be
related to the message on sourceforge.net: "The sourceforge.net website
is temporarily in static offline mode."
Hopefully this situation is going to normalize again, but I wonder if
gretl could somehow detect that the server isn't really working. Perhaps
it would be enough to simply extend the message in gretl's error dialog.
Gretl gets data from sourceforge via the libcurl API (see
https://curl.se/libcurl/c/ ) and all the relevant code is in
lib/src/gretl_www.c in the git source tree. If anyone can see a way to
get a more informative error message in case such transactions go
wrong, that would be all to the good.
Allin