From: Paul Kibet <laboso(a)yahoo.com&gt; To: Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; Sent: Monday, 29 October 2012, 13:13 Subject: Can gretl be made to use 'snapshot' & automatically update itself? It seems to me like this might not be an easy task especially for the  non code-writing people like myself.Is there a way of getting gretl to link up with the 'snapshot' automatically whenever there is a new release and on my promting it to update? Thanks for the information though Paul >________________________________ > From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; >To: Paul Kibet <laboso(a)yahoo.com&gt;; Gretl list <gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu&gt; >Sent: Monday, 29 October 2012, 12:57 >Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Principal Components Analysis Misbehavior > >On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Paul Kibet wrote: > >> I was wondering how i can update the gretl software that i installed on my laptop with the newer solutions that fixes the problems that people keep mentioning?Should i redownload  or the internet link that sits with the software automatically? > >If you're on Windows,

>http://gretl.sourceforge.net/win32/ (and similarly for the Mac). > >The usual caveat applies to snapshots: they may introduce new bugs. But most of the time the snapshot is an improvement over the previous release. And if there's anything particularly experimental/dodgy in the snapshot we try to issue a warning on the mailing list. > >Allin Cottrell > > >