[Gretl-devel] Re: problems with sleep()

On Fri, 4 Mar 2022, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: I just pushed to git a micro-fix to avoid the sleep() function freezing gretl. Try for example sleep(-1) sleep(0.1) now it's fixed (the first case is equivalent to sleep(0)). Hmm, I'd be more inclined to flag an error if the argument

[Gretl-devel] Re: difficult quiz to get an account for uploading packages

On Fri, 4 Mar 2022, Sven Schreiber wrote: I've just noticed the current state of the procedure how to obtain a login to upload a contributed package (as an author). This quiz strikes me as prohibitive: "The midasreg command was introduced in"... Seriously? I would fail bitterly, thank God I

[Gretl-devel] problems with sleep()

Hi all, I just pushed to git a micro-fix to avoid the sleep() function freezing gretl. Try for example sleep(-1) sleep(0.1) now it's fixed (the first case is equivalent to sleep(0)). --- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di

[Gretl-devel] difficult quiz to get an account for uploading packages

Hi, I've just noticed the current state of the procedure how to obtain a login to upload a contributed package (as an author). This quiz strikes me as prohibitive: "The midasreg command was introduced in"... Seriously? I would fail bitterly, thank God I already have an access account. And