On 14 May 2014 at 18:45, Rogério Brito wrote: | Dear Dirk and others, | | On May 14 2014, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > On 14 May 2014 at 17:08, Rogério Brito wrote: | > | Anyway, I can push the *super* embrionary packaging that I have so far. I | > | would like some help with the maintainance of this package since I have | > | barely any time left with the amount of packages that I maintain. | > | > I am semi-regularly IM'ing or emailing with the RStudio founder whom I'll | > meet tomorrow. I also have pretty good contacts with a number of other | > RStudio developers and engineers. | | That's great. I would love to know what to do about RStudio to convince it | to (while building) to use some off-the-tree packages like hunspell, mathjax | and possibly others. | | > You want to look at the current dev packages, eg (in binary) | > http://rstudio.org/download/daily/ | > which, inter alia, contain a very cooked-up local build of pandoc to be able | > to get the very, very latest pandoc binary without any depends. | | Thanks. Somehow I missed that directory. | | > I am not sure how ready this is even for Debian unstable, and they _do_ | | You probably meant experimental here?
Maybe :) | > provide ready-made .deb packages that users like myself deploy. | | I installed and started using rstudio and I have never been so impressed | with an IDE like this in ages. There are so many goodies with it that it | would be a real pity to not have it in Debian. Yes. And eg that newest pandoc stuff and their underlying rmarkdown package is mindboggling as well. Those guys are really good. | That being said, I don't think that the FTP masters would let us upload | something that duplicates a lot of stuff, but that shouldn't prevent us (or Agreed. But whenever I bring it up with JJ et al the answer is ... that they just need too much stuff that is too current ... Eg a whole slew of Qt things. Might be best to file a bug report with them. I'll ask JJ tomorrow who besides him a good contact would be. I presume you started off their GitHub repo? | the interested parties) from working on the package and start solving the | small problems (like those that I mentioned before), detecting unpackaged | dependencies (e.g., knitr and possibly many others) etc. | | > I can ask tomorrow, but RStudio is still a pretty fast moving target. | | Thanks. It would be nice to know if they are moving from Qt4 to Qt5 in the | short time or not. Also, if they would like to see RStudio packaged | independently from them. | | And there are probably other smaller issues like linking rstudio with | openssl, given that rstudio is licensed under the agplv3 and I didn't see | any licensing exception while skimming the sources (but it may be there). Dunno either. Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/21363.59264.251348.165...@max.nulle.part