Hi Andreas, Version 0.6.0 of googleVis is on its way to CRAN. A tagged released archive is available via GitHub.
Fingers crossed! Best regards MArkus — Markus Gesmann Blog: www.magesblog.com > On 4 Jul 2016, at 16:46, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: > > 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
