[Phylobase-devl] Rcpp and OS X compiliation

[Peter Cowan]

On Jan 11, 2010, at 6:55 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

[snip]

> I am still game. I see a three-pronged approach:
> 
>  i)    Suggestion Let's fix NCL and have a locally built version outside 
>        of phylobase on all test platforms

Is this only for testing purposes, or are you envisioning distributing them separately?

>  ii)   With that, fix/simplify Rcpp usage. Should be easy
> 
>  iii)  With that, get back to i) and clean up NCL's configure.
> 
> I think it would be easier to disentangle Rcpp and NCL inside phylobase while
> we make this more.
> 
> Who else can work with us on this, and in particular provide OS X skillz and
> testing?

I'm happy to help w/ OS X testing, but I'm not very familiar with C++, make or configure files.

Peter

> Dirk
> 
> 
> | Brian
> | 
> | 
> | >
> | > | I'm sure the make files for NCL could be greatly simplified which  
> | > could
> | > | help. But, it is currently beyond my abilities, and I don't  
> | > currently have
> | > | the time to learn the make.
> | >
> | > Ideally we would able to assume that the user has already installed  
> | > ncl. In
> | > the real world down here that may never be the case, alas.
> | >
> | > Dirk
> | >
> | > -- 
> | > Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
> | 
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> | Brian O'Meara
> | http://www.brianomeara.info
> | Assistant Prof.
> | Dept. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
> | U. of Tennessee, Knoxville
> | 
> 
> -- 
> Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.