Re: [Rcpp-devel] [Rd] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Shane Conway
Your original question is predicated on the notion that people are "disseminating misleading information about" you, with this phrase: "a small portion of the code is based on code written during 2005 and 2006 by Dominick Samperi". While it may be difficult to qualify contributions to a joint proj

Re: [Rcpp-devel] Dependence on GNU make because of $(shell)

2010-11-17 Thread Shane Conway
Dominick, My 2 cents: Nobody gets to decide when something is dead; it's more a consensus view driven by everyone who uses or contributes. Looking back at the RcppTemplate archive, I think that characterization is pretty accurate: http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/cxxPack/Ancestry/.

Re: [Rcpp-devel] Sugar

2010-11-01 Thread Shane Conway
My two cents: That seems sensible; an alternative view would be to say that sugar is in the same vein as the rest of Rcpp, might regularly be used in the same code, and the goal should be to keep everything as simple as possible (i.e. one library). I, for one, don't see the need to separate them.