On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 04:40:46PM +0200, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:39:29AM -0400, Liaw, Andy wrote:
> >
> >>Would it make sense to have platform specific packages in a separate area
> >>on
> >>CRAN? I don't know of anything other than Windows that understand COM.
>
> The question is: What exactly is platform-specific?
Platform-specific means what it says -- works only on a given platform (or
maybe a few). Or are trying to pull a Clinton here: "it depends was your
meaning of platform is" ? :)
> >Yup, and 'core' CRAN contains at least one Windows-only package: rbugs [ as
> >I found when working on a script to automagically build Debian packages
> >from
> >CPAN packages, the script is a modified version of Albrecht's script ]
>
> The author told me that rbugs is intended to work with WinBUGS under
> wine on a linux system (whereas I'm pretty sure R2WinBUGS is capable -
Think about it, what does 'run under wine' mean? Do you get it: it ain't no
native package when it needs an emulator.
Saying it runs under Linux using wine is like claiming your car just turned
into a boat. While it will float once driven into the river, I presume it
won't float for very long ...
> Where's the point not to have just this one source repository related to
> platform dependency?
Precisely. Let's have one source repo but _let us label any and all binary
restrictions_ more clearly so that I for one can skip over stuff that may
build for you [ Windoze ] but won't for me [ Linux, preferable on all all
ten to twelve hardware platforms supported by Debian for packages that get
uploaded ].
Does that make sense? Would it improve over what we currently have?
Dirk
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