Re: [Gretl-users] any use for gretlcli.exe?
Although I do a lot of gretl scripting, so far I have almost never used
the command-line versions on any platform. But I can easily imagine
cases where I would find it useful, for example when I would use Python
(or any other interpreted language) to glue together a project that
involves some gretl calculations. Then I would let Python call gretlcli
as a subprocess, and that should run on all platforms including Windows.
So I'd say yes it's worth it, at least if the additional effort of
providing it is not enormous (is it?).
thanks,
sven
Am 29.08.2009 02:55, Allin Cottrell schrieb:
One question occurs to me, as I push out the 1.8.4 release:
I wonder if anyone ever uses gretlcli.exe on Windows? I've
included it for completeness but maybe it's not earning its keep?
Don't worry, I won't get rid of gretlcli.exe without discussion.
But my feeling is that gretlcli on Linux is useful (to some of us
anyway) because Linux comes supplied with a highly functional
shell, wrapped in highly functional GUI terminal emulators such as
xterm and its derivatives. On the other hand the default shell on
Windows (cmd.exe) is primitive and horrible, as is the default
terminal emulator that it runs in.
You'd have to be a masochist to run gretlcli.exe under cmd.exe --
or would you? There's my question!
(I know you can do better running gretlcli.exe with a decent shell
under MSYS in a rxvt window on Windows -- but how many people do
that?)
Allin.
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