On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 10 January 2011 at 14:55, Dominick Samperi wrote: > | For those who may be tempted to release "free software," this is an > | illustration of the greatest hazard. Imagine seeing your prior work > | "released as deprecated" in a public CRAN repository. > > Yes, it is surely much better to release it and then have it rot > unmaintained: > > Exhibit A: RcppTemplate > > Exhibit B: cxxPack > > Can't wait for your next piece of art. > Yes, I'm sure you can't wait, as when I released a major update to RcppTemplate in November 2009 and you famously remarked (see README from Rcpp 0.6.3, pre-Romain): "As of November 2009, Dominick has re-commenced maintenance of RcppTemplate with new releases on CRAN. This may provide a good opportunity to import some new ideas into Rcpp as well, time permitting." When Romain joined the project he implemented many of the changes that I introduced here, and much more, a nice free-ride for you. Indeed, Romain made so much progress that I reshaped cxxPack from RcppTemplate, with a dependency on Rcpp. The reason I have not updated cxxPack is that I have been trying to decide whether or not to simply incorporate all or part of Rcpp into cxxPack rather than keeping the package dependency. I would have preferred to keep the dependency and work cooperatively and constructively with the Rcpp team, for the net benefit of the R community, but perhaps this is no longer possible. Dominick > Dirk > > -- > Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com >
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