Re: R arrow dependency on Rcpp?

2017-08-11 Thread Felix Cheung
Thanks Wes. I think the discussion is in line with my understanding of the release of optional component as well. In Spark, which is often used as an example in various discussions, actually does not have GPL dependencies that are required to function at runtime. We have build and test

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Arrow 0.6.0 - RC0

2017-08-11 Thread Wes McKinney
-1 (binding) I unfortunately must cancel this RC as the Plasma source tree is being forcibly excluded in the source release scripts from 0.5.0: https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/dev/release/02-source.sh#L92 This will also enable us to merge the security fixes for Java dependencies

Re: R arrow dependency on Rcpp?

2017-08-11 Thread Wes McKinney
hi Felix, Thanks for this context. From > If the goal is to make such component a package released to CRAN however, > then my take is this becomes a release by itself and what is required for the > package to function becomes the area for discussion, as per my understanding. My take is that

[jira] [Created] (ARROW-1350) [C++] Include Plasma source tree in source distribution

2017-08-11 Thread Wes McKinney (JIRA)
Wes McKinney created ARROW-1350: --- Summary: [C++] Include Plasma source tree in source distribution Key: ARROW-1350 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1350 Project: Apache Arrow

Re: R arrow dependency on Rcpp?

2017-08-11 Thread Felix Cheung
I see your view but I don't know if it is a fair assessment to judge two packages based on the set of packages they depend on ;) In all fairness SparkR integrates nicely with the magrittr package for example and conceivably even the dplyr package if there is ever anyone interested in