> Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 20:20:17 -0400
> From: cottrell@wfu.edu
> To: gretl-users@lists.wfu.edu
> Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl crashes
>
> 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
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