On 28/03/2023 2:00 p.m., Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
A quick drive-by-comment: What if 'R CMD build' would have an option
to flatten R/ subfolders when building the tarball, e.g.
R/unix/a.R
R/windows/a.R
R/a.R
becomes:
R/00__unix__a.R
R/00__windows__a.R
R/a.R
? Maybe that would be sufficient
A quick drive-by-comment: What if 'R CMD build' would have an option
to flatten R/ subfolders when building the tarball, e.g.
R/unix/a.R
R/windows/a.R
R/a.R
becomes:
R/00__unix__a.R
R/00__windows__a.R
R/a.R
? Maybe that would be sufficient for most use cases. The only thing
I can imagine is
The "good reason" is all the tooling in R doesn't work with subfolders and
would have to be rewritten. All the package check and build stuff. And
that's assuming you don't want to change the basic flat package structure -
for example to allow something like `library(foo)` to attach a package and
