On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Romain Francois <[email protected]>wrote:
> Le 17/11/10 16:09, Dominick Samperi a écrit : > >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Shane Conway <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Dominick, >> >> My 2 cents: >> >> Nobody gets to decide when something is dead; it's more a consensus >> view driven by everyone who uses or contributes. Looking back at the >> RcppTemplate archive, I think that characterization is pretty >> accurate: >> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/cxxPack/Ancestry/. >> A similar look at the most recent version of Rcpp shows that it's >> alive and well: http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/Rcpp/. >> We should all be nothing but thankful that Dirk and Romain stepped in >> and contributed so much. >> >> You are mentioned in every Rcpp source file and in the package >> documentation. Beyond that, the old package was most definitely dead. >> >> >> All citations have date ranges: 2005-2006 (the "Rcpp Classic" era), and >> that >> is quite different from Nov 2009 (see previous discussion). The work >> that you are so >> grateful for occurred *after* Nov 2009, not before. >> >> I am also grateful for this work, Romain is obviously a talented >> programmer, >> and the support provided by Romain and Dirk is a valuable service, as I >> have said before. >> > > We cannot say the same about your service, unless we use a sarcasm scale. > > > I wish I did not have to maintain cxxPack, much of it should be part >> of Rcpp, >> > > no way. get lost. > > > but working cooperatively on this seems to be out of the >> question. >> > > We are very open for collaboration. Rcpp has now 4 developers, who have > various interest. We are always listening to the mailing list and often > implement things in response to a question on the maing list (for example > sugar was community-trigerred, another example is code I commited today). > > We however have no (even remote) interest in collaborating with you or > anyone who would be that repeatedly annoying. Developping Rcpp is a lot of > work, it is also a lot of fun. Dealing with you is just a plain source of > pain. > Too bad Romain, as I think we could do good work together, but you are obviously under some kind of spell. If you change you mind you are welcome to work with me on cxxPack.
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