On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 3:58 PM Sven Schreiber
<sven.schrei...@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Am 08.05.2024 um 19:49 schrieb Cottrell, Allin:
> > On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 11:32 AM Sven Schreiber
> > <sven.schrei...@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> >> I'm puzzled by the fact that the sample script of the LocalProjection
> >> package produces an error "invalid option --time-series". And indeed
> >> that option is appended to a "plot" command, which is not supported as
> >> per the doc.
> >>
> >> However, the package was moderated in August, and I'm assuming that the
> >> sample script ran fine at that time. So, has something changed in gretl
> >> since then? (Either 2024a, or 2023c, or post-2024a.) Or actually, I tend
> >> to think that it still worked around March or so.
> > Yes, it stopped working after March 29.
> >
> > I've checked all the gfns, and LocalProjection is the only one to
> > append an option to the first line of a plot block. I can't find any
> > that attach options to "end plot" other than the ones that are
> > officially recognized for that context. I don't think that we should
> > add a workaround for the usage in LocalProjection.
>
> Agreed, this needs to be fixed in the package. However, from the
> timeline of the release of gretl 2024a on April 5th, it would mean that
> the package should have failed already in the run-up to the release. My
> question then is, why didn't we notice? I thought it's a standard part
> of the testing parcours to check the sample scripts of all packages.

You're right. I'm afraid there was a testing failure in this case. All
the gfns had been tested probably a day before the March 29 change,
and at the time it didn't seem that anything "significant" had changed
between then and the April 5 release. But that's a risky assumption,
and not one I'll make in future. Obviously, it would be good if I were
not the only person testing all the gfns' sample scripts in the run-up
to a release.

Allin
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