[Boostheaders-devel] [Bioc-devel] Boost packaged on rforge

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 2 May 2013 at 06:39, Vincent Carey wrote:
| 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 size 1.9 MB.
|  Is there any down side to distributing the entire header set apart from
| expansion to 444 MB on installation?  I noticed that bitSeq needed to remove

Yes, 444mb is considered a downside.

Our thought process is/was that there are lots of packages that use only a
subset of Boost -- the 80/20 rule clearly applies.  I know I have my fingers
in one or two packages that apply, but Jay and Mike drove the concrete first
build of BH by providing what bigmemory needed.

RBGL may be pushing it, but we would surely try to accomodate it, provided
this would work without linking.  We really want to try to limit ourselves to
templates here.

| an inclusion of iostream.h from one of the headers used.... once you need such
| customization the benefits of a centrally managed distribution diminish.

Are you saying bitSeq only builds when certain Boost headers are removed from
a full Boost installation or copy?  That sounds weird.
 
Dirk

| On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Steffen Neumann <sneumann at ipb-halle.de> wrote:
| 
|     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 tracker [1].
| 
|     If you want to port your package to BH
|     and figure out the required dependencies,
|     check out svn://r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/boostheaders
|     and edit boostheaders/CreateBoost.R (see how I munged
|     that file on [2] ...)
| 
|     Then iterate over
| 
|             cd boostheaders
|             rm -rf pkg/BH
|             R --vanilla <CreateBoost.R
|             R CMD INSTALL pkg/BH
|             R CMD INSTALL /your/package/
| 
|     until success. Unfortunately with boost, it might not
|     be as straightforward as adding " graph ",
|     that's why I have that insane "find /my/package -exec bcp -scan"
|     in my hacked [2]. Also note that in a hacked version of
|     CreateBoost.R it is possible to switch between boost versions.
| 
|     Yours,
|     Steffen
| 
| 
|     [1] https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/?atid=5310&group_id=1469&func=
|     browse
|     [2] https://github.com/sneumann/boostheaders/blob/master/CreateBoost.R
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
|     On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 22:47 -0400, Vincent Carey wrote:
|     > 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
|     > <sneumann at ipb-halle.de> 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.
|     >
|     >         I know a few packages on BioC are using -- and embedding --
|     >         boost.
|     >         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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|     IPB Halle                    AG Massenspektrometrie &
|     Bioinformatik
|     Dr. Steffen Neumann          http://www.IPB-Halle.DE
|     Weinberg 3                   http://msbi.bic-gh.de
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