On 23 May 2005 at 19:15, Don Armstrong wrote:
| What I'm talking about (and why I'm continuing this discussion) is the
| optimal resolution of this issue, post sarge release, by fixing:
|
| 1) r-base-core to provide the correct headers/fix whatever headers
| are supplied
This is a recursive argument. R-base-core is R, and it ships whatever is
current and hence "correct". Greg is "just being nice" by allowing people to
build rpy with older R versions.
Now, as I mentioned earlier, as of R 2.1.0, the API has seen some cleanup;
R-2.2.0 may better that. So we'll know more in October (or from the SVN
checkouts / r-devel tarballs).
| > No, after mulling this over all day, I have decided to close it.
|
| That basically precludes any further discussion, and will likely
Exactly. :)
There is always the web archive, though. Google doesn't forget ...
| > I do not think that changing the set of distributed header files is
| > a good idea.
|
| Can you explain why?
R is *beautifully* cross-distro, cross-platform, cross-anything. I do not
think that making out R different adds value. Quite the contrary.
(I am already on the edge by having "r-base" split off r-base-core and all
the other packages. As per some R Core members, a 50mb sumo package would be
preferred. I disagree there, but I don;t want to go much further than that.)
Dirk
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