Hello to a ll,
thank Sébastien, for setting the mailing list.
The work to be done is the following:
- Confirm with Gary that his AIM files are in the public domain
I have just written to him
- Ask Marco Ratto if we can distribute his files under the GPL
Marco is in vacation. Let's wait until he comes back to contact him
- Ask Tomasso Mancini if we can distribute his userguide under the
GFDL. Moreover, at this time, we can't recompile the PDF from the LaTeX files in the SVN (the bibliography file is outdated, we lack the cover page)
I will touch base with Tomasso by the end of August.
- There are two files which do a generalized cholesky, written by Jeff
Gill. I don't know if we should contact the author or write an alternative
We may want to contact him. I think it would be difficult to write an alternative without copying him without telling so.
- The remaining files are used to compute pdf, cdf and quantiles of
several distributions. All these functions exist natively under Octave: http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Distributions.html Some of the Octave functions are written in script language, so we can directly incorporate them into Dynare; others use DLLs, so in those cases we must write an alternative in a M-file. Stéphane also said to me that he intend to write a DLL linked to GSL for all thoses functions.
As much as possible, we should keep M f iles equivalent to DLL that we may use. How many of these functions are DLL only in Octave?
Best
Michel
Sébastien
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