On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Berend Hasselman wrote:
> I'm testing the latest gretl snapshot on Max OS X Lion
> 10.7.2 and Max OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8. On Lion I had no
> function files installed.
>
> 1.
>
> I try to install the gig package from the server without
> realising that gig is part of Gretl.app. Gretl downloads the
> package (so I assume since I'm seeing a progress bar) but
> then gives the message "Unspecified error".
>
> But now comes the weird thing: menu Help, Check addons says
> that gig 2.1 is installed. So does File, Function files, On
> local machine (But shows version 2.0 for Function files, On
> server)
The thing is that gig is now an "addon", which is treated
specially, and not a regular contributed function package. The
last version of gig as a regular function package was indeed
2.0 (January 2011), but it shouldn't be there any more, among
the "on server" packages. I didn't notice that it was still
there, but now I have removed it.
> Inspecting
> Gretl.app/Contents/Resources/share/gretl/functions/gig
> reveals that some files have been updated (dated Yesterday)
> but not all (they have a date (mm-dd-yyyy) 13-10-2011).
That's their date as dd-mm-yyyy; gig was last packaged on
October 13 of this year.[*]
> 2.
>
> Trying to install a not installed function file gives the
> error message "Couldn't find <package name> for gretl 1.9.7"
> (this is regardless of Snow Leopard or Lion). Gretl doesn't
> seem to take the <minver> field into account.
Which package were you trying to install? I just tried a
couple of new ones and they installed OK. As another check I
removed my local copy of the SVAR package, went to /Help/
Check for addons, and chose to install SVAR. That went OK too,
but I'll try testing on OS X.
> 3.
>
> The pdf for gig mentions version 2.2! But gig.gfn has the
> version set to 2.1.
2.1 is the current version of gig in CVS, so "2.2" must be an
error in the pdf file.
Allin
[*] Here's listing produced by "unzip -l gig.zip", from the
zipfile on sourceforge:
Archive: gig.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
0 10-13-11 16:18 gig/
45195 10-13-11 16:18 gig/gig.gfn
552775 10-13-11 16:18 gig/gig.pdf
0 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/
315 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/example1.inp
588 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/README
472 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/example4.inp
673 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/example3.inp
204640 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/IBM.gdt
326 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/test.inp
299 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/ged.inp
79046 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/msft.gdt
326 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/test3.inp
1902 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/example7.inp
466 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/test2.inp
701 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/example6.inp
511 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/smorgasbord.inp
595 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/example5.inp
537 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/example2.inp
360 10-13-11 16:18 gig/examples/test4.inp
-------- -------
889727 20 files
