<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:18 PM, 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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On 10 January 2011 at 14:55, Dominick Samperi wrote:<br>
| For those who may be tempted to release "free software," this is an<br>
| illustration of the greatest hazard. Imagine seeing your prior work<br>
| "released as deprecated" in a public CRAN repository.<br>
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</div>Yes, it is surely much better to release it and then have it rot unmaintained:<br>
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Exhibit A: RcppTemplate<br>
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Exhibit B: cxxPack<br>
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Can't wait for your next piece of art.<br></blockquote><div><br>Yes, I'm sure you can't wait, as when I released a major update to<br>RcppTemplate in November 2009 and you famously remarked (see<br>README from Rcpp 0.6.3, pre-Romain):<br>
<br>"As of November 2009, Dominick has re-commenced maintenance of RcppTemplate<br>with new releases on CRAN. This may provide a good opportunity to import<br>some new ideas into Rcpp as well, time permitting."<br>
<br>When Romain joined the project he implemented many of the changes that I<br>introduced here, and much more, a nice free-ride for you.<br><br>Indeed, Romain made so much progress that I reshaped cxxPack from<br>RcppTemplate, with a dependency on Rcpp.<br>
<br>The reason I have not updated cxxPack is that I have been trying<br>to decide whether or not to simply incorporate all or part of Rcpp into<br>cxxPack rather than keeping the package dependency. I would have<br>preferred to keep the dependency and work cooperatively and<br>
constructively with the Rcpp team, for the net benefit of the R<br>community, but perhaps this is no longer possible.<br><br>Dominick<br><br></div><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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Dirk<br>
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