As I understand, it would still be an R package, on CRAN, at least this is certainly a possibility.
The idea was about putting the headers into *every* package that uses Rcpp, and then these packages don't have to specify LinkingTo: Rcpp*, and they would be completely independent of subsequent Rcpp* releases. But maybe I misunderstood. Gabor On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > Romain, Gabor, > > Would you considerr taking this discussion elsewhere? Or at least make it > very clear that you are talking about the Rcpp11, which as AFAICT has not > left Github. > > Rcpp was created as a CRAN package. It remains a CRAN package. It fits > squarely into the dependency mechanism of CRAN. It has proven useful, and > stable. As a consequence it is as of today used by almost 200 CRAN packages > and almost 20 BioC package. > > Please do not confuse our users by implying that any of this is about to > change. You are more than welcome to experiment with new approaches, new > implementation, new distributions, ... but *please* make sure you continue > to > do so under a new name too. > > This list is about Rcpp. The CRAN package. > > Thanks, Dirk > > -- > Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com >
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