On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
First off, thanks for maintaining pl-r. I wasn't aware that it has landed in
your lap. I was aware that the Pg maintainers didn't really want it (for lack
of R expertise) but I had no spare capacity to take it on myself.
Well, I used this package on a machine running testing and I noticed by
chance that it was dropped. I tried to convince RM to reinclude it into
Lenny (even bothered them in person at DebConf) but I was not lucky with
this attempt. So we will not be able to provide a straight upgrade path
from Etch to Lenny - especially if our package in unstable might relay
on new R 2.8 features and might get problems with backporting to 2.7.
I have no idea whether this might be one consequence of the issue we are
discussing here - but at least this might be possible.
| > You can work around this problem for your local installation by just
| > copying src/include/Rdevices.h into the plr source directory. The
| > you can build the package for the moment.
|
| I have to revert this.
Yes, that was plain wrong. R (upstream) changed their interface and
tightened this. It also affected things I maintain such as the RPy package.
So the error is plainly with the client package. It is not an R issue
inasmuch as that these interface were never public (yet pl/R is a well-known
example even used in the 'R Extensions' manual about embedding).
OK, thanks for the clarification.
| I learned that Rgraphics.h is lacking as well
| and once you include these both in the plr source tree and try to
| build against R 2.8 you get something like:
Did you talk Joe Conway about this? Joe as upstream author has always been
very responsive clueful when I contacted him about pl/R (which I had played
with over the years).
I've ssen that Joe is in CC and no, I did not yet talked to him because
I just made wrong assumptions (about missing include files). Since you
now clarified this issue I guess Joe will find a reasonable response.
Now the final question for Faheem: Pl/R has existed in Debian for years. Why
did you think you needed to rebuild it for etch? Were you lacking a
particular combination of versions of R and/or Pg on etch ?
We might perhaps a package which works with Lenny Build-Depends.
I'm sure we can sort all this out.
If Joe helps us I'm really optimistic.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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