[Rcpp-devel] Distribution of Rcpp*11* codebase

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

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On 8 April 2014 at 08:36, Martyn Plummer wrote:
| 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.
| 
| If you choose some other mechanism, then I suspect that any developer
| problems you eliminate will just return as system administration
| problems.

100% agreed. 

And I say that as someone who has been working with a system of dependencies
for close to 20 years -- by contributing to Debian's system.  Which works
well for Debian / Ubuntu, and it also works well for CRAN.

Moving away from it may simply lead to rediscovering issues that are mostly
solved and addressed.

Dirk

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Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com