Re: [Bioc-devel] Boost packaged on rforge

2013-05-02 Thread Vincent Carey
Thanks for inputs from Steffen and Steve. When a considerable block of time opens up I will see about the effort required to have RBGL make use of this. The compressed size of boost 1.49 is abut 49MB, while the compressed size of BH is 1.4 MB, and the subset that I use for RBGL has compressed siz

Re: [Bioc-devel] Boost packaged on rforge

2013-05-01 Thread Steffen Neumann
Hi Vincent, BH currently works the way that the package sources (and that includes BH/inst/include/boost/*) are automagically created by bcp'ing the dependencies of *some* R packages (e.g. bigmemory on rforge). John and Dirk et al said that people can ask for additional dependencies on the tr

Re: [Bioc-devel] Boost packaged on rforge

2013-05-01 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Vincent Carey wrote: > are the headers for the "boost graph library" purposely excluded? i do not > see them in BH/include They purposely only include parts of boost. From what I understand, what is included is need driven ... there is some discussion of it o

Re: [Bioc-devel] Boost packaged on rforge

2013-05-01 Thread Vincent Carey
are the headers for the "boost graph library" purposely excluded? i do not see them in BH/include On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Steffen Neumann wrote: > Hi BioC world, > > I'd like to draw the attention to the boostheaders (or BH) > package on rforge.org [1], which packages the boost headers >

[Bioc-devel] Boost packaged on rforge

2013-05-01 Thread Steffen Neumann
Hi BioC world, I'd like to draw the attention to the boostheaders (or BH) package on rforge.org [1], which packages the boost headers so that other packages can link/include them. I know a few packages on BioC are using -- and embedding -- boost. There have also been some discussion a long time