Re: [Rd] how to include a windows dll in a package

2006-08-16 Thread Gabor Csardi
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:09:52AM -0400, Allen S. Rout wrote: > Gabor Csardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > No problem, libxml2 sources are available, that is fine with the > > GPL. They need not be included in the _same_ package as the > > binaries. > > This is a topic of vigorous debate at

Re: [Rd] how to include a windows dll in a package

2006-08-16 Thread Allen S. Rout
Gabor Csardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No problem, libxml2 sources are available, that is fine with the > GPL. They need not be included in the _same_ package as the > binaries. This is a topic of vigorous debate at the moment. r-devel is not a good forum in which to repeat the debate, but

Re: [Rd] how to include a windows dll in a package

2006-08-15 Thread Gabor Csardi
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 03:34:05PM +0200, Uwe Ligges wrote: > > > Gabor Csardi wrote: > >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 sou

Re: [Rd] how to include a windows dll in a package

2006-08-15 Thread Uwe Ligges
Gabor Csardi wrote: > 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?

Re: [Rd] how to include a windows dll in a package

2006-08-15 Thread Gabor Csardi
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/

Re: [Rd] how to include a windows dll in a package

2006-08-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Gabor Csardi wrote: > Dear R Developers, > > 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 conditi

[Rd] how to include a windows dll in a package

2006-08-15 Thread Gabor Csardi
Dear R Developers, what is the correct way to include a dll in a source package, that is expected to be installed in the libs directory? 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? Thank yo