So there is the "official Gretl version". Then there is the "current snapshot". Both can be installed with a few mouse clicks, accommodating non-technical persons like me. And then, there is the Gig ("Gretl in git"). If I understand correctly the Gig is something like the vision of the prophet that will soon come true but for the time being it mainly gives hope and psychological comfort to the believers? Namely, "This now is fixed in git" translates into "And I saw Tomorrow, and Tomorrow was bright and beautiful and peaceful, and generating random variables as you need and hope it will" ? The really comforting thing is that this Tomorrow usually does come... Alecos Papadopoulos PhD Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece School of Economic Sciences Department of Economics web: alecospapadopoulos.wordpress.com/ On 11/1/2019 19:00, gretl-users-request(a)lists.wfu.edu wrote: