On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malate...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Why tweak it? Why isn't the included library good? >>> >>> Because I use libigraph with external blas / lapack and lots of >>> options which are not the one used in the r interface. >> >> You can build the shared library in the R package with external >> blas/lapack, and your lots of options, as well. > > I could not figure that out, there were no instructions on how to do that...
Just replace any option you want in the 'Makevars' file. See the 'Writing R extensions' document. [...] > Now as a debian packager, as I have to explain why I am polluting > debian disk space with two packages which differ with a single ifdef > on the c-rand() versus the r-rand() function. > > This is not clear to me why the rand is so burried down in the igraph > library. The rand function should be a parameter, so that the > R-interface would use the r-rand() function, the python-interface > would use whatever python-rand function is, java would use > whatever-rand function it needs. But I am not going to triplicate the > source code of igraph for every single target language: You can use the same source code, just like we do. There is just one bzr tree for all the stuff, not a single file is duplicated in it. Some of the binaries will be duplicated, though, at least until we implement the hooks I mentioned in the previous email. But actually, I am not convinced that having R-igraph in Debian would be a big benefit. I've used Debian and Debian-based distributions for more then ten years now, but always installed R packages from CRAN and not from Debian. They provide the same flexibility, CRAN has more packages, it is up-to-date and can be used without admin rights, from R itself. So I would propose to package the C library only, and wait until we "fix" the R package. [...] G. -- Gabor Csardi <gabor.csa...@unil.ch> UNIL DGM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
