Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl crashes
On Sat, 4 May 2013, Manny B wrote:
> 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.
I guess at least 5-10 of my students use XP. If Manny could point out to
me a reliable way to reproduce the bug he's seeing, I could ask for
their cooperation and use them as Guinea pigs.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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