On Apr 16, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Adrian Trapletti wrote: > I don't really like the approach which ship the redundant jar files unless it > is a "precompiled binary" distribution of a package. >
What do you mean by "redundant"? Your package won't work without them ... > In the meantime I found the following suggestion > http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr/index.php?post/2009/03/26/Hello-Java-World > which is close to what I was thinking of. > Well, that's in essence what has been suggested. The point is that *you* have to run build before you publish the package to create the jar file, it can't be done at install time for reasons explained. Cheers, Simon > Anyhow thanks for the comments. > > Best regards > Adrian > > On 04/16/2013 01:44 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> On 16/04/2013 12:20, Adrian Trapletti wrote: >>> Dear All, >>> >>> Are there any plans around that "R CMD INSTALL >>> some_package_containing_java_source code" supports Java source code >>> compiling in future versions of R similar to compiling C/C++ and/or >>> Fortran sources in the src directory? >>> >>> Best regards >>> Adrian >>> >> >> No. A Java 'compiler' is not required, but if one is available is it is set >> in etc/Makeconf as JAVAC. >> >> There are many packages which ship jar files with 'compiled' Java code, and >> others with .class files. It is hard to see a case for compiling at install >> time rather than when preparing the package. But it would be easy to write a >> suitable rule in src/Makevars. >> >> Note that most systems will not have a JDK, only a JRE. That includes >> Windows systems, but winbuilder should be able to prepare a binary package >> (it needs a JDK to install rJava, JavaJD ...). >> >> One needs to be slightly careful with Java version requirements. AFAIR OS X >> Leopard systems only had 1.5 (at least for one of the architectures) and R >> 2.15.x still supported Leopard (and packages are still being built for it). >> Systems with Java 1.6 aka 6 are still in widespread use, even if it past >> end-of-life according to Oracle. >> > > -- > Dr. Adrian Trapletti > Steinstrasse 9b > CH-8610 Uster > Switzerland > > Phone : +41 (0) 44 9945630 > Mobile : +41 (0) 79 1037131 > > Email : adr...@trapletti.org > WWW : www.trapletti.org > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
