[Rcpp-devel] Why not export CxxFlags and LdFlags?

[Romain François]

On 01/05/2010 06:20 AM, Henning Redestig wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My question is in the title, if these functions were meant to be
> called from outside Rcpp (such as in a Makevars script of different
> package) why not exporting them so they are reachable via
> Rcpp::CxxFlags() instead of Rcpp:::CxxFlags() ?
>
> Bit picky perhaps but I just got this pointed out for me at the
> bioconductor-devel list.
>
> Kind regards,
>

Hello,

I guess the main reason is that these functions don't need the package 
to be loaded to run.

If you submit a patch (including documentation) I'll review it, unless 
Dirk has stronger reasons not to export them.

Romain

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