[Rcpp-devel] Distribution of Rcpp codebase

[Romain François]

Hello Martyn, 

Thanks for joining the discussion; 

Le 8 avr. 2014 à 10:36, Martyn Plummer <plummerM at iarc.fr> a écrit :

> And another 2 cents from me.
> 
> A package is the basic unit of functionality in R. Whatever
> functionality you are providing, I think a package is the best way to
> deliver it. There is a well developed framework for versioning,
> dependency resolution, testing, and distribution.

I definitely agree with you, as far of distributing R code is concerned, an R package is ideal. 

I no longer think that an R package is the right distribution vessel for a header only C++ library. 

> If you choose some other mechanism, then I suspect that any developer
> problems you eliminate will just return as system administration
> problems.

I understand that. The way Rcpp11 is structured, the developer will have the choice between: 
 - using the codebase from Rcpp11, whatever version that is, by just doing a LinkingTo: Rcpp11. 
 - snapshot Rcpp11 into their package. 

I will not enforce one or the other. People will have the choice of which problem they’d rather have. 

With Rcpp, there is no such choice. 

Romain

> Martyn
> 
> On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 10:12 +0200, Xavier Robin wrote:
>> My 2 cents...
>> 
>> On 07/04/14 10:12, Romain François wrote:
>>> It would also mean many copies of the same code base. To which I’m thinking: so what.
>> No, it will mean many copies of /many different and mostly outdated/ 
>> code bases.
>> You can count on me to forget to git pull next time I update my package.
>> 
>> What about something like the BH package that contains the boost 
>> headers? I'm using it in a project I'm working on, and just use a 
>> LinkingTo declaration with something in Makevars.
>> Of course ideally it would be in a build-depends type of declaration so 
>> it isn't pulled during binary installs.
>> 
>> Xavier
>> 
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