Re: [Gretl-users] Possible redundancy of some function packages?

-----Original Message----- From: gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-users-bounces@lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 11:52 AM To: Gretl list Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Possible redundancy of some function packages? ... Jack: "I believe that the Polish team has already done some preparatory work in that direction and it would be a shame it that gets wasted, so in my opinion the best thing would be to join forces. If nobody minds, I'd like to put forward a proposal: Henrique, Sven and someone else (nominated by Tadeusz, Marcin and Paweł) become the package maintenance team, with the following responsibilities: * short run: classify packages with a set of criteria like the ones we've been discussing so far, and make proposals about them (also in the light of the expanding set of features that Hansl has been gaining over the years). For example, Claudia's clustered_ols is IMO quite valuable in terms of example script, while for example I wonder whether we really need "cnumber" any longer, since a possible Hansl equivalent implementation may reduce to the 7-liner ... * medium run: verify that all the packages install and run the provided example script on the widest possible assortment of OSes (various flavours of Windows/Linux/OSX): perhaps, it'd be nice to have someone with some OSX competence in the team, since I assume the people I mentioned can patrol the Linux/Win territory quite well. Of course, I don't mean to force anybody to do things they don't have time for or don't feel like doing, so I don't want anybody to feel obliged." Me: Great idea! PS