Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.cour...@inria.fr> writes: > Perhaps we could add to Autoconf-Archive (if it doesn’t have such things > already) macros to deal with the R and Python stuff you had to deal > with? And then publish a simple template that people could use as a > starting point.
I submitted my macros for R packages (and they have been accepted), but I actually don’t really like them because they are not as useful as it may seem. While they do check for R packages in the environment at configure time, nothing is done to record the environment necessary to access these packages. That’s a general problem for software that depends on search path environment variables. I can’t just record the location of each individual R package that was detected and use that to set up the environment at runtime. The R packages have other runtime dependencies that would also need to be recorded. It’s not ideal. -- Ricardo
