Thanks, Hernando,
Sorry, "API" is a bit confusing term in this context, but what I want to
discuss is the "API" that Writing R Extension defines as quoted in my
previous email. It's probably different from an ordinary sense when we
casually say "R C API".
You might wonder why I care about such a
Hello, I don't believe it is illegal, as ALTREP "implements an abstraction
underneath the C API". And is "compatible with all code which uses the API".
Please see slide deck by Gabriel Becker, with L Tierney, M Lawrence and T
Kalibera.
https://bioconductor.org/help/course-materials/2020/BiocDeve
Writing R Extension[1] defines "API" as:
Entry points which are documented in this manual and declared in an
installed header file. These can be used in distributed packages and will
only be changed after deprecation.
But, the document (WRE) doesn't have even a single mention of ALTREP, the
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