Having discussed this some more with Romain who has no strong views on the
matter, I am inclined to the remove the patch that added the ability for
compilation with MSVC as I cannnot come up with answers to these questions:
i) Why would it make sense to have this? Honestly, what is it good for to
compile Rcpp _in isolation_ when one cannot load the resulting object
code in R ?
ii) The new files lack proper headers, credits, copyrights. Our code plays
by the rules in terms of credits, copyrights and licensing. I see no
reason to lower our standards and risk getting into trouble when as
per i) there is no reason or upside anyway.
iii) I fear it attracts the wrong crowd of Windows users with little
knowledge about R, and little C/C++ understanding outside their
cherished IDE. If people want something for Visual Whatever, I just
learned from Bryan Lewis the other day that he is working on an
Rserve-on-Windows improvement -- see http://illposed.net/rserve.html
and in particular the last paragraph. That is a better route as it may
actually work with dotWhatever etc.
But before I remove the patch I would like to hear from potential users
(ideally: others than just the patch submitters) as to why this would be a
bad idea.
Thanks, Dirk
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Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
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