On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 12:43 PM Sven Schreiber
<sven.schrei...@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Am 08.11.2022 um 17:45 schrieb Cottrell, Allin:
> >
> > You need to run gretl.exe with the --debug flag, as described in
> > section 50.1 of the User's Guide. Then you'll get a console window
> > showing what gretl writes to stderr.
>
> OK, I think we're getting there, here's what gretl is claiming when the
> listing window is opened:
>
> duplicated function package: DP.gfn 1.3
>
>   C:\Users\<...>\AppData\Roaming\gretl\functions\DPB [first instance found]
>
>   C:\Users\<...>\AppData\Roaming\gretl\functions [duplicate]
>
> I had already quietly speculated whether DP and DPB would be too similar
> as names, but I found the idea quite far-fetched because I thought a
> machine/software wouldn't care as long as the names aren't exactly
> identical (up to lower vs. upper casing)...

Well, we were trying for a shortcut in the duplication check, and it
turns out it failed for a package with a name of less than 3
characters in length. That's now fixed in git.

BTW this was not Windows-specific. For DP not to appear in the listing
you had to have DPB installed, at version 1.3 to match DP version 1.3.

Allin
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