Thanks Jonathan, this is helpful. I'm just a bit concerned based on other comments that submodules might not be compatible with CRAN and/or other CI runners. Plus, I only want a few cpp files copied over.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM Jonathan Berrisch <jonat...@berrisch.biz> wrote: > Hi John, > > first of all: I'm not an expert on this and don't really know if there > is a recommended way. > > However, you may look at my 'rcpptimer' package and how it includes > 'cpptimer' as a submodule. > > You can find the repository here: https://github.com/BerriJ/rcpptimer > > And here you can see 'cpptimer' which is included as a submodule: > https://github.com/BerriJ/rcpptimer/tree/main/inst/include > > Whenever I make commits to 'cpptimer' I have to update the submodule > (basically changing at what commit I want to have that submodule > included 'git submodule update --remote'). You'll find good > documentation about submodules online. > > Maybe that helps. > > Best Regards, > > Jonathan / BerriJ > > > On 1/21/25 11:57, John Clarke wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I have an Rcpp package I'm developing. All but one of the cpp source code > > files are pulled from the original/authoritative (CLI) version of the > > application. The only unique cpp source code to the Rcpp package is my > > wrapper.cpp which contains the Rcpp interface. This approach works fine, > > but every time we make changes to the original CLI repository, it > requires > > a manual (and duplicate) commit to my Rcpp repo. This is not ideal from a > > source tracking perspective and is a DRY violation. > > > > What is the recommended way of maintaining the shared cpp code in a Rcpp > > repo? Ideally, it would be nice to be able to pull the files from the > > source repo using a tag/hash so that the only code change in the Rcpp > repo > > would be that reference rather than all the changes to the shared source. > > It would also be nice to use some sort of symlinkish setup during > > development to allow quick testing before making commits in the original > > CLI repo. Is this possible? Recommended? (we can assume dev is on MacOS > or > > Linux) > > > > Thanks, > > > > -John > > > > John Clarke | Senior Technical Advisor | > > Cornerstone Systems Northwest | john.cla...@cornerstonenw.com > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
