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Robert Gentleman wrote: > > ........... > As for the difference between source packages and built packages, yes > it would be nice at some time to enter into a discussion on that topic. > There are lots of things that can be done at build time (that are not > currently being done) that would speed up package installation etc. But > they come at the price that Henrik has mentioned. The built package is > no longer suitable for development. And hence we may usefully consider > another format (something between source and binary, .Rgz?) > I didn't get any time before the feature freeze to work on a new package mechanism, but I think that is what is needed rather than tweaking and complicating the existing collection of perl and shell scripts. I believe it is time that we now move the package system to R code and use real OOP to allow for all these differences. Now that I am not teaching 5 days a week, I will have time to work on this and so get the frameworks (packages that provide compiled/native routines for other packages to use) as a first example. Hopefully sometime in (northern hemispher) summer. > best wishes > Robert > > > >>If there is need, we could start having developer-package repositories. >>However, I'd prefer a different approach. We're currently in the >>process of updating the CRAN server infrastructure, and should be able >>to start deploying an R-forge project hosting service "eventually" >>(hopefully, we can set things up during the summer). This should >>provide us with an ideal infrastructure for sharing developer resources, >>in particular as we could add QC testing et al to the standard community >>services. >> >>Best >>-k >> >>______________________________________________ >>R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > > - -- Duncan Temple Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Statistics work: (530) 752-4782 4210 Mathematical Sciences Building fax: (530) 752-7099 One Shields Ave. University of California at Davis Davis, CA 95616, USA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFESQKK9p/Jzwa2QP4RAiaYAJwM16032JOLp6Qst7E0xNsAfuoHTgCfW+dq fUnLrPaIzZJiCoAg9+Glmwc= =8ZKC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
