diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 7f63de56174fd6c323da4f5c1cd51382008cbaa4..253db184d2ff428dfecfbfad77c51aef4692f3d3 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Package: dynare Architecture: any Depends: octave3.0, ${shlibs:Depends} Description: Software suite for non-linear models with forward looking variables - Dynare is a pre-preprocesser and a collection of Octave and Matlab (R) routines + Dynare is a pre-preprocessor and a collection of Octave and Matlab (R) routines which can solve, simulate and estimate non-linear models with forward looking variables. . diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright index aaa2e28e46e1dbfc1c05d06e9eda7a27cdc9c865..50dd8d626b7bd436c9174912a2b9953981e1e95b 100644 --- a/debian/copyright +++ b/debian/copyright @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Upstream source for Dynare can be found on: It can also be downloaded via subversion at: - http://www.cepremap.cnrs.fr/svn/ + http://www.dynare.org/svn/dynare Debian packaging was done by Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot@ens.fr>. diff --git a/windows/README.txt b/windows/README.txt index 3fe314de72978ad0b9b6be8b6280b57f63c225f4..e1690f4a27a54e6b52e1336bc33ac733820290cb 100644 --- a/windows/README.txt +++ b/windows/README.txt @@ -53,17 +53,21 @@ specify a MOD file. Using Dynare with Octave ------------------------ -Dynare is now available for Octave, a free clone of Matlab (R) (see +Dynare is now available for GNU Octave, a free clone of Matlab (R) (see <http://www.octave.org>). -For installing Octave on your Windows system, go to: +The recommended Octave distribution is the Octave/Windows VC++ 3.0.3 +precompiled binaries from Octave Forge, available at: - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2888&package_id=40078 + http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2888&package_id=40078&release_id=642199 -Then pick the 'octave-3.0.1-vs2008-setup.exe' installer. Choose GNUplot -graphical backend (instead of JHandles) during installation. Also note that -this distribution contains a nice text editor, which you can invoke with "edit" -as you would under Matlab (R). +During installation, you will be asked which graphical backend to use. Neither +of them works perfectly with Dynare at this time: + + * GNUplot gives better-looking results when several graphics are plotted in the + same window, but window titles will not show up + * JHandles properly displays windows titles, but gives ugly results when several + plots are displayed in the same window WARNING: the Octave binary distribution has a bug which makes Octave crash everytime one types 'clear all' (and therefore everytime one runs Dynare!). A