[Gretl-users] bug-hunting time

Hello all, We're planning to release gretl 1.9.6 before long -- probably a couple of weeks from now -- and in the meantime we'd much appreciate it if you could help us hunt down bugs, so that we can make the best possible release. If you have old gretl scripts to hand, please try running them and check that they still work. And if you have a record of results, please check that the current results agree with the old ones. Also -- since checking the gretl GUI for breakage is not so easy as checking scripts -- please see if you can find time to do things using the graphical interface and look out for anything wrong. Send your reports of bugs to this list, or use the bug-tracker at Sourceforge if you prefer: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=36234&atid=416803 For now, however, please hold back on feature requests -- we're focused on finding bugs. Please bear in mind a couple of important points: 1) Your reports will be much more valuable if you're using gretl that you have build yourself from current CVS, or else the current snapshot for MS Windows http://gretl.sourceforge.net/win32/ or Mac OS X. http://gretl.sourceforge.net/osx.html Many bugs in the last release (gretl 1.9.5) have already been fixed. See http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog.html . 2) Some older gretl scripts will not work because the scripts thenselves contain bugs. Current gretl catches (for example) the syntax error of writing scalar x = 2*(3 + 4)/y) which has an extraneous trailing ')'. This was fixed just today (2011-09-04). I was surprised at how many scripts in my collection exemplified this error. Thanks! Allin Cottrell