<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:59 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 15:39, Dominick Samperi wrote:<br>
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| On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <<a href="mailto:edd@debian.org">edd@debian.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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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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| Yes, it is surely much better to release it and then have it rot<br>
| 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>
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| 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>
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| "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>
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| 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>
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</div>That is the same (ungrounded) insult you have hurled at us repeatedly, and it<br>
is still as wrong as it was the other times. Give it a rest. Whatever your<br>
code was is now in RcppClassic. We never used anything from your shortlived<br>
RcppTemplate.<br>
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| Indeed, Romain made so much progress that I reshaped cxxPack from<br>
| RcppTemplate, with a dependency on Rcpp.<br>
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| 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>
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</div>Incorporate R as well while you're at. And maybe the C library. One never knows.<br>
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| 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>
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</div>Unless I am mistaken, you have sent one patch. For a system / compiler<br>
combination not used by R itself and also of limited to no interest to Romain<br>
and myself, so we declined to use it. That is all. That does not constitute<br>
cooperation.<br>
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If you actually sent patches we have something to look at. But I reckon you<br>
like producing hot air much more than working on code. Each at their own.<br>
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As for 'cooperative', well, I may get to that once I stop giggling.<br></blockquote><div> <br>Well, since you dismiss real bug fixes as bogus, and overrule changes<br>(my patches) that would make Rcpp more portable and reliable, even<br>
when Romain agrees that they could be useful, cooperation does seem<br>to be a joke of some kind.<br><br></div><div>Merging Rcpp into cxxPack may be the only way that I can move on to<br>the work that really interests me. I am open to other suggestions from<br>
the R community...<br><br>Thanks,<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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