> On Nov 19, 2015, at 3:59 PM, Qiang Kou <q...@umail.iu.edu> wrote: > > Hi, Simon, > > Is there any specific reason to use this? >
This is OT, but, yes, git2r didn't exist when we wrote gitgist so we couldn't use it, obviously. Now, someone would have to re-write gitgist to use git2r - if you want to volunteer, I'd be very grateful :). Thanks, Simon > If you need a binding for libgit2, maybe you can try > https://github.com/ropensci/git2r > > At least it is actively maintained. > > Best, > > KK > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > Simon, > > That may be a little tricky for a few reasons: > > i) We just released Rcpp 0.12.2. I spend a considerable amount of time > testing prior to a release. This time we had three full reverse > dependency checks totalling over 1500 builds given the 500+ revdeps. > Any such issue would have stopped us. > > ii) AFAIK Carlos wrote guitar years ago yet he never pushed it to CRAN. We > made changes to Rcpp Modules during this time, we also made changes to > how exception escalate (different OS drive this...). Because this > package only ever stayed on GitHub this did not get tested. Else we > would have known sooner. > > iii) Rcpp Modules is a clever trick that is rather useful. Sadly, it is not > that well documented and its principal creator has moved on too so the > code is not exactly actively maintained. > > So here we need a volunteers to dive it this and debug, maybe bisect with > older Rcpp releases, ... > > It looks like this won't be Carlos, and it probably won't be me either. > > Dirk > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > _______________________________________________ > Rcpp-devel mailing list > Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel > > > > -- > Qiang Kou > q...@umail.iu.edu > School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University > _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
