On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Allin Cottrell
<cottrell@wfu.edu> wrote:
On Fri, 3 May 2013, Manny B wrote:
> As I just said to Allin, don t worry Sven! The problem is
> obviously in my Windows. I will work on another pc. Thnx for the
> effort! We found that only I have the problem so everything if
> fine with gretl :)
Hold on -- we're econometricians; I'm grateful to Yi-Nung and Sven
for testing, but a sample size of 3 cannot yield definitive results.
Some bugs are sneaky, only manifesting themselves under certain
conditions. If we had 10 tests on Windows XP with only one report of
crashing, I would be much happier.
It's tempting to say that XP is very old by now (released 11.5 years
ago) so why should we bother, but it's (still) currently the second
most widely used personal computer operating system after Windows 7.
So I take seriously any suggestion that current gretl is unstable on
XP; I'd very much like to find out what -- if anything -- is wrong
with our gtk stack as packaged for Windows.
Allin