On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 6:11 AM Sven Schreiber <sven.schrei...@fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > at least twice during the last couple of days gretl tells me it doesn't > find any function packages when looking on the server. This seems to be > related to the message on sourceforge.net: "The sourceforge.net website > is temporarily in static offline mode." > > Hopefully this situation is going to normalize again, but I wonder if > gretl could somehow detect that the server isn't really working. Perhaps > it would be enough to simply extend the message in gretl's error dialog.
Gretl gets data from sourceforge via the libcurl API (see https://curl.se/libcurl/c/ ) and all the relevant code is in lib/src/gretl_www.c in the git source tree. If anyone can see a way to get a more informative error message in case such transactions go wrong, that would be all to the good. Allin _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list -- gretl-users@gretlml.univpm.it To unsubscribe send an email to gretl-users-le...@gretlml.univpm.it Website: https://gretlml.univpm.it/postorius/lists/gretl-users.gretlml.univpm.it/
