Re: [Gretl-users] gretl 1.6.4
Allin Cottrell schrieb:
However, I forgot to make this code conditional on userdir being
an empty string! This is now fixed in CVS.
Should I put out 1.6.5?
I don't know what the release policy is, but I would tend to answer yes;
the user dir problem should mostly affect existing gretl users, who will
be quite puzzled why they can't get their old settings to work.
In any case I personally would recommend that no new features are
introduced until 1.6.5. If you don't want two releases in such a short
time span, I can give you one or two more bugs that could be squashed in
the meantime... ;-)
...
I've been assuming that CSIDL_APPDATA is the "correct"
place to
put the gretl userdir, by default. But actually this directory
seems to be doing double duty. It might be better to split
"userdir", with temporary files going under CSIDL_APPDATA and
explicitly user-saved files under CSIDL_MYDOCUMENTS.
As you might imagine, it would probably take some time to get this
right, so I'm not about to do it right now. Moreover, it's not
totally obvious to me exactly how the breakdown between the two
locations should go. For example, which one should hold
X-12-ARIMA and/or Tramo-related files?
Hm, I'm not sure if it's worth the effort. Would you then do the
Mac-specifics also? Apart from the fact that new bugs will be introduced
by that switch... IMHO that would be a new feature, and it seems to me
that gretl could use some time to stabilize all the new stuff that has
been added in recent months.
just my 2 €-ct (can you read the Euro sign in your encoding?)
-sven