[Rcpp-devel] package using Rcpp aborting with: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Rcpp::not_compatible' inside class__newInstance()

[Simon Urbanek]

> On Nov 19, 2015, at 3:59 PM, Qiang Kou <qkou at umail.iu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Simon,
> 
> Is there any specific reason to use this?
> 

This is OT, but, yes, git2r didn't exist when we wrote gitgist so we couldn't use it, obviously. Now, someone would have to re-write gitgist to use git2r - if you want to volunteer, I'd be very grateful :).

Thanks,
Simon



> If you need a binding for libgit2, maybe you can try https://github.com/ropensci/git2r
> 
> At least it is actively maintained.
> 
> Best,
> 
> KK
> 
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Simon,
> 
> That may be a little tricky for a few reasons:
> 
>  i)   We just released Rcpp 0.12.2. I spend a considerable amount of time
>       testing prior to a release. This time we had three full reverse
>       dependency checks totalling over 1500 builds given the 500+ revdeps.
>       Any such issue would have stopped us.
> 
>  ii)  AFAIK Carlos wrote guitar years ago yet he never pushed it to CRAN. We
>       made changes to Rcpp Modules during this time, we also made changes to
>       how exception escalate (different OS drive this...).  Because this
>       package only ever stayed on GitHub this did not get tested.  Else we
>       would have known sooner.
> 
>  iii) Rcpp Modules is a clever trick that is rather useful. Sadly, it is not
>       that well documented and its principal creator has moved on too so the
>       code is not exactly actively maintained.
> 
> So here we need a volunteers to dive it this and debug, maybe bisect with
> older Rcpp releases, ...
> 
> It looks like this won't be Carlos, and it probably won't be me either.
> 
> Dirk
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