On 26 October 2015 at 09:46, Jason E. Aten wrote:
| Cool. Thanks for mentioning that. I'll send him a note.
+1 -- I would have CC'ed him had I had his email handy. I'll try to reach out
too.
| You "just" make that
| a) a SystemRequirements: entry and possibly add a line to say which
| Debian/Ubuntu and/or Fedora/Yum packages need to be installed
| b) possibly test for it in configure
|
|
| I'll try to dig into the autotools docs and figure out how to add a configure
If it is "all greek" to you let me know. I helped a few other packages over
the years with simple configure tasks.
| test. It's really just running "go version" and checking that the "go"
| executalbe exists and the output of "go version" is 1.5.1 or later.
Pretty much. Here is what I do in RQuantLib:
pkg_version=`quantlib-config --version`
# also test for quantlib version using result from quantlib-config --version
case ${pkg_version} in
0.1.*|0.2.*|0.3.*|0.4.*|0.8.*|0.9.*|1.0.*|1.1.*|1.2.*|1.3.*)
AC_MSG_WARN([RQuantLib requires QuantLib (>= 1.4.0).])
AC_MSG_ERROR([Please upgrade to a current version.])
;;
esac
autoconf looks complicated, but is mostly just shell scripting ...
| I added a human readable note to the SystemRequirements in the DESCRIPTION.
| It's "apt-get install golang" on ubuntu, and "yum install golang" on fedora.
| Should the SystemRequirements field be in some kind of machine parseable/CRAN
| build-testable syntax?
But I checked with eg
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/g/golang/golang_1.5.1-1_changelog
and few systems will have 1.5.1 yet. Ie it probably won't Ubuntu before
16.04 next year. Are there PPAs?
Dirk
PS Oh, and I forgot to mention that I like msgPack a lot too :) and have
played a little bit with C++ bindings via Rcpp.
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