This is a developers' release of gretl (GNU regression, econometrics
and time-series library).  It comprises libgretl, a shared library which 
provides various functions relating to econometric estimation, a
command-line client program and a gui client, using GTK+.

gretl is free software under the GNU General Public License, a copy
of which is provided in the source package ("COPYING"), and comes
with abolutely no warranty.

Libgretl is based on the stand-alone command-line econometrics program
ESL, originally written by Ramu Ramanathan of the Department of
Economics at UC-San Diego and distributed in DOS format with
Ramanathan's book "Introductory Econometrics" (Dryden).

To find out more about gretl, please look at the manual (under
"doc" in source package) and/or the online help, which is available
in two somewhat different versions for the command-line and gui
client programs.  Also, gretl has a web home at

http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/gretl

Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University
cottrell@wfu.edu
