On 23 October 2006 at 16:51, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
[... nice announcement trimmed ...]
| There are a couple of things about which I would like some advice:
|
| (1) The package currently contains a very rudimentary configure script
| which stops installation when readline is not found. I'm not sure if
| this is portable enough. .../src/unix/sys-std.c has more sophisticated
| conditional directives, but I don't know enough about this sort of
| thing to interpret those. Any thoughts or suggestions on this would be
| appreciated.
littler has the same issue for getopt, R itself, R as a dynamic library,
.... So far, we are going with 'just bark and stop'.
For rcompletion, I hope you simply stick with configure. I don't like the
trend of shipping everything again and again (Hi, Seth :)
| (2) What's the recommended procedure to distribute this, given that
| (a) it's not relevant on Windows (i.e. won't do anything even if it
| could be installed) and (b) may or may not be relevant on Macs, some
| of which apparently have a fake readline that doesn't support
| completion?
Again, I also wondered if littler should just pretend to be a CRAN package so
that at least the update and compile mechanism works from R (given how we
need re-runs of configure and make if something changes as we depend on
compile-time 'hard' settings for littler as opposed to env. vars for R).
The problem we are facing is that we're unsure how to get to
/usr/(local/)/bin from update.packages() ...
Given that you'll undoubtedly come up with something clever, Jeff and I will
be sure to see if we can mimic it :)
Dirk
--
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
-- Thomas A. Edison
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