On 10/23/06, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 :)
Well, rcompletion is a proper package, the only issue is that it's platform / environment dependent. I know there are other such packages, I just don't know how they are dealt with. I don't see how you can get around the /usr/bin problem for littler, except by asking the user to manually do something like ln -s /path/to/library/littler/bin/r /usr/local/bin/ which at least wouldn't have to be repeated on further upgrades if you detect that the link exists. -Deepayan ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
