Hi Markus, On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 02:47:46PM +0100, Markus Gesmann wrote: > I haven't published the new version on CRAN yet, as I hoped you would test > the package beforehand.
Ahh, OK - so waiting for CRAN update is pointless. :-) > Can you do that? Yes, but could you please tag the release since this enables automatic download of release tarballs which saves me the work of writing a download script as instead just pointing an existing tool to the Github URL. Tagging releases makes sense anyway. > I would hate to make the change to jsonlite if anything would stop working as > a result of this. ACK. > Best regards Same Andreas. > Markus > > -- > Markus Gesmann > Blog: http://www.magesblog.com > > > On 4 Jul 2016, at 13:27, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: > > > > Hi again, > > > > seems the new version needs some time to show up on CRAN. Is there any > > chance that you set tags for the release versions on Github which would > > simplify downloading the tarball a lot? > > > > Kind regards > > > > Andreas. > > > >> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 02:35:11PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > >> Thanks a lot, that's very helpful, Andreas. > >> > >>> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 10:47:55AM +0100, Markus Gesmann wrote: > >>> Hi Andreas, > >>> > >>> Thanks for the little challenge ;-) > >>> > >>> It appears to be straightforward to change googleVis from RJSONIO to > >>> jsonlite. > >>> > >>> You can access version 0.6.0 of googleVis (using jsonlite) from GitHub: > >>> https://github.com/mages/googleVis. > >>> > >>> I would very much appreciate, if you could test as well. > >>> > >>> Best regards > >>> > >>> Markus > >>> > >>> — > >>> Markus Gesmann > >>> Blog: www.magesblog.com > >>> > >>>> On 2 Jul 2016, at 09:48, Andreas Tille <andr...@fam-tille.de> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Hi Markus, > >>>> > >>>>> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 10:08:54AM +0200, Markus Gesmann wrote: > >>>>> We opted for RJSONIO at the time as we believed it is has the better > >>>>> performance. > >>>>> > >>>>> If would start the project today, we would probably go with Jeroen > >>>>> Ooms’ jsonlite package, which is also MIT, as RJSONIO and rjson don’t > >>>>> appear to be actively developed anymore. > >>>> > >>>> Jsonlite would be fine as well. > >>>> > >>>>> Perhaps, you can encourage the other package developers to change their > >>>>> license. > >>>> > >>>> What package developers do you mean? Do you think RJSONIO should change > >>>> to pure MIT? That's probably not possible since they are using code > >>>> from the (famous) non-evil author who has fought endless flamewars to > >>>> defend his crazy idea (as if evil people would care for a license ... > >>>> :-(). > >>>> > >>>> Do you think there is much effort to port googleVis to jsonlite? > >>>> > >>>> Kind regards > >>>> > >>>> Andreas. > >>>> > >>>>>> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 12:31:54AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > >>>>>> Hi Markus, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I intend to package googleVis for Debian. I realised that it depends > >>>>>> from RJSONIO which is using code with MIT-no-evil license - which is > >>>>>> actually evil since it is non-free. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Could googleVis be adapted to use r-cran-rjson instead? It is > >>>>>> mentioned here in the Debian bug tracking system: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712159#32 > >>>>>> > >>>>>> This would be really helpful > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Andreas. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> -- > >>>>>> http://fam-tille.de > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> http://fam-tille.de > >> > >> -- > >> http://fam-tille.de > > > > -- > > http://fam-tille.de > -- http://fam-tille.de -- debian-science-maintainers mailing list debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers