Thank you for the answer. On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 02:09:59PM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Gabor Csardi wrote: [...] > > what is the correct way to include a dll in a source package, that > > is expected to be installed in the libs directory? > > You could put it in inst/libs. But we discourage that. > (And if you do do this, watch out for licence conditions.)
Why is this discouraged? Not that i like putting binary files into packages, i understand that this is against good taste. But is there a more serious reason? libxml2 is GPL, my package is GPL, R is GPL, so this part should be fine. > > Or in general is there a better way than supplying the dll to use a > > third-party library (libxml2) in a package which should build on windows as > > well? > > As I understand it, several package maintainers have set up arrangements > with Uwe Ligges to do this, based on DLLs they have supplied him. > Package XML being an example, so I suspect Uwe already knows all about > libxml2. You could actually avoid this by depending on XML and arranging > to have XML/libs in the PATH at load time. I don't really like depending on the XML package, since i don't actually use the functions provided by this package, i only want to use libxml2, which is not even part of the XML source package. Gabor > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -- Csardi Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MTA RMKI, ELTE TTK ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
