Hi, an update on this:
On Saturday 08 May 2010, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote: > Well a live CD would be pretty cool. However I think the most exciting > option is to simply provide a self-extracting archive that contains a > complete installation of RKWard, kdebase, and R (with R2HTML, and perhaps > some others pre-installed). This should be rather easy to create and > maintain, and (taking my somewhat atypical installation as a reference) I > think this would be somewhere around 200-250MB for the download. I tried with KDE 4.4.1 (kdebase-runtime, and even kdebase-apps included), R 2.11.0, and RKWard 0.5.3. Unpacked it's around 600MB (+ some overhead for the many small files; I did not try to make an ISO image, yet, but I would guess it will fit by a narrow margin). Packed into a self-extracting archive with 7zip this comes down to ~129MB, which isn't all that bad, IMO. Now that the technical side of this is pretty much sorted out, there are some legal issues to consider. First is this: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/10927 . The second issue is complying with GPL version 2, section 3. I guess the easiest option will be to gather all relevant sources, pack them up, and offer them for download as well. Of course this will duplicate the effort involved, but according to my reading, simply pointing out where the sources can be downloaded, regularly, is not enough for GPL v 2 compliance. It would also be nice, if one or more people could volunteer to (co-)maintain this "bundle" (i.e. create a new package for each new release of RKWard, and perhaps for "important" new releases of R and KDE). The work involved is not much more difficult than the current installation procedure, but does probably take around an hour for each release (some of this could be automated). Regards Thomas
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