Thank you for the explanation Uwe. With regards, Tal
----------------Contact Details:------------------------------------------------------- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Uwe Ligges < lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > > > On 26.01.2012 09:39, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Uwe Ligges >> <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.**de <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On 25.01.2012 22:20, Tal Galili wrote: >>> >> >> Does any one know the reason for this? >>>> Is this a technical or a legal (e.g: license) issue? >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> If legal issues were the reason, you had not found it in the archives >>> anymore. >>> >>> >> Licensing can change - as a copyright holder I could decide the next >> release of my package is going to be under a proprietary license that >> doesn't allow redistribution. Any code already released under >> something like the GPL can't be forcibly removed, and people can make >> new forks from those, but if I'm the only person writing it and I >> decide to change the license and the latest free version isn't >> compatible with the current version of R then I'd expect to see the >> old versions in the archives and no version for the latest version of >> R. >> >> Last checkin at R-forge was only six weeks ago, and 1.0-3 installs >> fine on my latest R: >> >> >> https://r-forge.r-project.org/**scm/?group_id=950<https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/?group_id=950> >> >> I suspect they just haven't pushed it to R-forge yet. Cockup before >> conspiracy. >> >> Barry >> > > Before people start with even more speculations: Reason is that the > revoIPC package does no compile on modern versions of gcc and hence has > been archived, doSMP depends on it and therefore went to the archives as > well. > > Uwe Ligges > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
