[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I would like to create a binary package for Windows which when >installed will give the user an option of whether to install >one version or another. > >Here is the problem, I have a package 'FAME' that can run >in two different modes on Windows. > I hope this is a Windows version of the package called fame already on CRAN. Otherwise, you need to think of a different name, and it would be nice to have versions that work on Sun and Linux, not just Windows.
>An old mode that uses >R to connect to a remote linux machine > Just remote linux machines, or does it handle remote Sun machines too? Does it handle the endian problem? >and a new way that >uses a locally installed database. > >I would allow this decision to be made at run time, but >the DLL in the later case depends upon the database's DLL >being on the Windows machine. A runtime solution would >require at least one extra level of dynamic loading. > >So I would like something like this to happen: > the zip file contains fame-local.dll and fame-remote.dll > when the user selects 'install packages from a zip file' > the user should be given the option of which DLL > should be renamed to 'fame.dll'. > > I'm confused. If you want the user to be able to make a run time decision then you can't make this choice at install time can you? Should you not be installing both fame-local.dll and fame-remote.dll and then deciding at run time which one to call? (If this package is doing what I think it is doing, then users would want to make a run time choice. Actually, often I would want to use both at run time.) Paul >Is this possible?? > >If so, how would I do it? > >If not, then are there an recommendations for a solution? > An alternative I can try is to have 2 separate packages, > 'fame' and 'fame-remote'. > >Thanks, >Rick Jones > >______________________________________________ >R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ==================================================================================== La version française suit le texte anglais. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email may contain privileged and/or confidential inform...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
