Hi again,

seems the new version needs some time to show up on CRAN.  Is there any
chance that you set tags for the release versions on Github which would
simplify downloading the tarball a lot?

Kind regards

        Andreas.

On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 02:35:11PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Thanks a lot, that's very helpful, Andreas.
> 
> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 10:47:55AM +0100, Markus Gesmann wrote:
> > Hi Andreas,
> > 
> > Thanks for the little challenge ;-) 
> > 
> > It appears to be straightforward to change googleVis from RJSONIO to 
> > jsonlite.
> > 
> > You can access version 0.6.0 of googleVis (using jsonlite) from GitHub: 
> > https://github.com/mages/googleVis.
> > 
> > I would very much appreciate, if you could test as well.
> > 
> > Best regards
> > 
> > Markus
> > 
> > —
> > Markus Gesmann
> > Blog: www.magesblog.com
> > 
> > > On 2 Jul 2016, at 09:48, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi Markus,
> > > 
> > > On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 10:08:54AM +0200, Markus Gesmann wrote:
> > >> We opted for RJSONIO at the time as we believed it is has the better 
> > >> performance.
> > >> 
> > >> If would start the project today, we would probably go with Jeroen Ooms’ 
> > >> jsonlite package, which is also MIT, as RJSONIO and rjson don’t appear 
> > >> to be actively developed anymore.
> > > 
> > > Jsonlite would be fine as well.
> > > 
> > >> Perhaps, you can encourage the other package developers to change their 
> > >> license. 
> > > 
> > > What package developers do you mean?  Do you think RJSONIO should change
> > > to pure MIT?  That's probably not possible since they are using code
> > > from the (famous) non-evil author who has fought endless flamewars to
> > > defend his crazy idea (as if evil people would care for a license ...
> > > :-().
> > > 
> > > Do you think there is much effort to port googleVis to jsonlite?
> > > 
> > > Kind regards
> > > 
> > >       Andreas.
> > > 
> > >> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 12:31:54AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > >>> Hi Markus,
> > >>> 
> > >>> I intend to package googleVis for Debian.  I realised that it depends
> > >>> from RJSONIO which is using code with MIT-no-evil license - which is
> > >>> actually evil since it is non-free. 
> > >>> 
> > >>> Could googleVis be adapted to use r-cran-rjson instead?  It is
> > >>> mentioned here in the Debian bug tracking system:
> > >>> 
> > >>>  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712159#32
> > >>> 
> > >>> This would be really helpful
> > >>> 
> > >>>      Andreas.
> > >>> 
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> > 
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