[Rcpp-devel] Planning to remove the MSVC patch

[Dominick Samperi]

Play by the rules? Attract the wrong crowd? Lower our standards?
This is clearly a political post with an obvious bias.

Such propaganda would probably be frowned upon if it wasn't for the
fact the the person who posted this message is also the
mailing list maintainer.

Free software ideology and R-Forge emerged to facilitate sharing,
not to be used as tools to build empires.

As Romain does *all* of the development, creative work, and
quality control, he should decide where to go with this, not a politician.

Dominick

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

>
> Having discussed this some more with Romain who has no strong views on the
> matter, I am inclined to the remove the patch that added the ability for
> compilation with MSVC as I cannnot come up with answers to these questions:
>
>  i)   Why would it make sense to have this? Honestly, what is it good for
> to
>       compile Rcpp _in isolation_ when one cannot load the resulting object
>       code in R ?
>
>  ii)  The new files lack proper headers, credits, copyrights.  Our code
> plays
>       by the rules in terms of credits, copyrights and licensing. I see no
>       reason to lower our standards and risk getting into trouble when as
>       per i) there is no reason or upside anyway.
>
>  iii) I fear it attracts the wrong crowd of Windows users with little
>       knowledge about R, and little C/C++ understanding outside their
>       cherished IDE.  If people want something for Visual Whatever, I just
>       learned from Bryan Lewis the other day that he is working on an
>       Rserve-on-Windows improvement -- see http://illposed.net/rserve.html
>       and in particular the last paragraph. That is a better route as it
> may
>       actually work with dotWhatever etc.
>
> But before I remove the patch I would like to hear from potential users
> (ideally: others than just the patch submitters) as to why this would be a
> bad idea.
>
> Thanks, Dirk
>
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