Play by the rules? Attract the wrong crowd? Lower our standards?<br>This is clearly a political post with an obvious bias.<br><br>Such propaganda would probably be frowned upon if it wasn't for the<br>fact the the person who posted this message is also the<br>
mailing list maintainer.<br><br>Free software ideology and R-Forge emerged to facilitate sharing,<br>not to be used as tools to build empires.<br><br>As Romain does *all* of the development, creative work, and <br>quality control, he should decide where to go with this, not a politician.<br>
<br>Dominick<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edd@debian.org">edd@debian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Having discussed this some more with Romain who has no strong views on the<br>
matter, I am inclined to the remove the patch that added the ability for<br>
compilation with MSVC as I cannnot come up with answers to these questions:<br>
<br>
i) Why would it make sense to have this? Honestly, what is it good for to<br>
compile Rcpp _in isolation_ when one cannot load the resulting object<br>
code in R ?<br>
<br>
ii) The new files lack proper headers, credits, copyrights. Our code plays<br>
by the rules in terms of credits, copyrights and licensing. I see no<br>
reason to lower our standards and risk getting into trouble when as<br>
per i) there is no reason or upside anyway.<br>
<br>
iii) I fear it attracts the wrong crowd of Windows users with little<br>
knowledge about R, and little C/C++ understanding outside their<br>
cherished IDE. If people want something for Visual Whatever, I just<br>
learned from Bryan Lewis the other day that he is working on an<br>
Rserve-on-Windows improvement -- see <a href="http://illposed.net/rserve.html" target="_blank">http://illposed.net/rserve.html</a><br>
and in particular the last paragraph. That is a better route as it may<br>
actually work with dotWhatever etc.<br>
<br>
But before I remove the patch I would like to hear from potential users<br>
(ideally: others than just the patch submitters) as to why this would be a<br>
bad idea.<br>
<br>
Thanks, Dirk<br>
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