Thank you so much for the explanation, JJ! It is very kind of you to give such detail and transparency. I am highly appreciative of it.
Kind regards, Xu On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 4:50 PM, JJ Allaire <j...@rstudio.com> wrote: > What keeps happening to us is that we end up requiring older or patched > versions of Qt, which makes it challenging to be synced to whatever version > of Qt happens to be in Debian/Ubuntu. Essentially we often need to vendor > Qt, and that isn't something that is compatible with being in the standard > Debian or Ubuntu repos (but may be compatible with Snaps or other > packaging/bundling standards). > > We definitely should have a PPA though. Jonathan, is that something we're > considering along with work on Linux bundling (w/ Snaps, etc.)? I guess we > should also find out if it's acceptable to vendor Qt within a PPA. > > Note that automated installation of the latest versions of RStudio stable, > preview, and daily builds is possible using the URLs published here: > https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/203842428-Getting-the-newest-RStudio-builds. > I realize this isn't a PPA, but it's at least a way of installing/updating > non-interactively. > > J.J. > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 4:36 PM Xu Wang <xuwang...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Dear All, >> >> I try not to bump too much, but I just tried Ubuntu 18.04, and it is >> not in repo and I still do not see any PPA available. If it would >> help, I can spend the time to explain why I believe it helpful to >> install using a command rather than webbrowser, but I think this is >> already understood why helpful, but it seems there is just a technical >> tricky problem to solve to implementation. >> >> Thank you so much for all of your works. I'm sorry to insist on this >> issue. Let me know if there is something I can help for testing. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Xu >> >> On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 2:23 AM, Xu Wang <xuwang...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > OK thank you for your reply! It is too bad the environment is not >> > right yet in Ubuntu, but I will keep hoping that things work out. >> > >> > Thank you for all of your work! >> > >> > Kind regards, >> > >> > Xu >> > >> > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 8:02 PM, JJ Allaire <j...@rstudio.com> wrote: >> >> We still haven't gone to Qt 5.6 unfortunately. They've deprecated >> >> QtWebKit >> >> (which is part of the Qt 5.4 release which we are on now) so that's not >> >> a >> >> good place to be long term. >> >> >> >> Qt 5.6 includes the Chromium based QWebView and is also an LTS Qt >> >> release so >> >> it's definitely the right platform to be on. We have a very small team >> >> though and many other priorities, bug fixes, etc. tend to intrude. >> >> >> >> J.J. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 7:53 PM, Xu Wang <xuwang...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Xu Wang <xuwang...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 11:06 AM, JJ Allaire <j...@rstudio.com> wrote: >> >>> >> Not yet. We need to migrate to Qt 5.6 then I think it will be >> >>> >> pretty >> >>> >> seamless. >> >>> > >> >>> > I see. Thank you for update and for your kind work, J.J.! >> >>> >> >>> Hi JJ, >> >>> >> >>> Any update? It seems it did not make it into Ubuntu 16.04. But thank >> >>> you very much for trying! I really appreciate your effort. Perhaps >> >>> there is a chance we can get it into 16.10? >> >>> >> >>> Kind regards, >> >>> >> >>> Xu >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> > >> >>> > Kind regards, >> >>> > >> >>> > Xu >> >>> > >> >>> >> >> >>> >> J.J. >> >>> >> >> >>> >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Xu Wang <xuwang...@gmail.com> >> >>> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:42 AM, JJ Allaire <j...@rstudio.com> >> >>> >>> wrote: >> >>> >>> > It seems likely that it will be in 16.04 since it's due in >> >>> >>> > December >> >>> >>> > of >> >>> >>> > this >> >>> >>> > year. That would indeed be a good time for things to come >> >>> >>> > together! >> >>> >>> > >> >>> >>> > J.J. >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> Can anyone confirm that the rstudio package is now in the 16.04 >> >>> >>> repos >> >>> >>> ? That would be exciting! >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> Kind regards, >> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> Xu >> >>> >> >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian