[Boostheaders-devel] Boost packaged on rforge

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 2 May 2013 at 00:19, 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 
| so that other packages can link/include them.

The package is also on CRAN.

What Steffen did not mention is that it is _template headers only_ based on
the good experience we had with Armadillo and Eigen headers from R/Rcpp. So
that brings potentially quite a lot of Boost to R, but not all of Boost.

Reges, Graph, Date formatting/parsing, ... all need object code too, and are
thus not fully helped by package BH.
 
| I know a few packages on BioC are using -- and embedding -- boost.

Same on CRAN.  Our argument of providing all / most of these in one package
to be used at compile-time was apparently good enough for the CRAN
maintainers to accept it.

Now we just need to make it better.

Dirk

PS  Steffen, the issue tracker is here: 
    https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/?atid=5310&group_id=1469&func=browse
    and you have not yet logged the request for iostreams there. Might be a
    good idea to record it here too.

| There have also been some discussion a long time ago [2]
| 
| This might be a chance to get a single package that contains boost ?
| 
| Yours,
| Steffen
| 
| [1] http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/boostheaders/
| [2] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2009-February/001808.html
| 
| 
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