Re: [Gretl-users] [Gretl-devel] gretl CVS status (important!)
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> Most of the time gretl CVS (and snapshots) are basically "latest
> stable", but every now and then CVS gets a little wild as new
> stuff comes in. Well, now is one of those times. [...]
Well, it seems we're back to reasonable stability. Jack Lucchetti
and I have run hundreds of accumulated scripts and have found
nothing amiss in current CVS, despite big internal changes.
Another important thing: if any of you out there is using home-written C
programs which link to libgretl, there are very high chances that your
program will not work anymore with the version of libgretl which is now in
CVS.
You _may_ be ok if your program only uses matrices, but all the functions
that handle series and lots of functions related to the "genr" apparatus
have changed their APIs, so if you try to run your older executable with
the new libgretl.so, you'll get a segfault or worse (your dog may catch
fire and your partner may turn into a yeti).
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti