RPy 1.0 will continue to exist, and bug fixes will be made, but feature enhancements will occur in RPy2, which is being so capably handled by Laurent. I'll try to create a Windows installer for 2.8.0 later this week.
-Greg -----Original Message----- From: Laurent Gautier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 5:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Rpy] future of rpy 1.0 Peter wrote: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Mario Beauchamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was just wondering... now that rpy 2.0 seems to be the new thing, >> does that mean rpy 1.0 will die? I am not ready yet to go 2.0 and I >> still depend on windows installers for newer versions of R as they >> come along but it seems that none are coming... I do not see rpy die, but continue its way at least for some time. I have picked the name rpy2 to allow a peaceful coexistence with rpy (both can be installed in the same python library directory - but importing both of them in the same python process might not be a good idea). > Hopefully the backward compatibility interface in rpy 2.0 will > eventually make upgrading from rpy1 to rpy2 simple. That's the intent, but rpy2.rpy_classic is currently only providing compatibility to a "large" part of rpy. > In the meantime, I would assume the developers would accept Windows > installers compiled by volunteers. Yes. I built the last rpy binaries, but stopped because: - conception/design/implementation of rpy2 was taking a lot of time - I could not access my development win32 machine for some time. For rpy2, I am relying on builds kindly contributed by Laurent Oget. > These need updating for each new > release of R, so the installers do get out of date. > > Its been a while but I have build rpy on Windows with Python 2.3 and > MSCV 6.0 (the compiler used for the official Python 2.3 installation). > Cygwin's mingw32 compiler should also work (which is freely available > software) for any version of python. All compiling I have done was with mingw32. Laurent > Peter > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > rpy-list mailing list > rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rpy-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ rpy-list mailing list rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rpy-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ rpy-list mailing list rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rpy-list
