Re: [Gretl-users] questions about the next release
Am 11.10.2013 21:49, schrieb Allin Cottrell:
It's time we put out a new gretl release (this will be 1.9.13)
and
we're pretty much ready to do that.
That's good news.
MS Windows:
For some time now I've been putting up snapshots with a 64-bit build
of gretl for Windows; see
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gretl/files/windows-testing/
I've tested this myself on Windows 8 and found no problems. (There
was a problem with gnuplot at first but that is long since fixed.)
Since 64-bit Windows is becoming more widespread I think it would be
worth moving this out of testing and offering it as a regular
download option. Anyone see any reason why not? (Since the 32-bit
version runs OK on win64 but not vice versa we could say something
like, "If you're not sure which version you need, choose the 32-bit
one.")
I support this view. I also used the 64-bit version for some work on
panels, and I didn't experience any special issues. Actually, once I
needed the 64-bit version (on Windows) as the dataset seemed to be too
large for the 32-bit for which I received an "out of memory" error. It
worked fine with the 64-bit one.
Artur