Re: [rkward-devel] a new approach to external plugins

2011-08-10 Thread meik michalke
hi, am Mittwoch 10 August 2011 (19:05) schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier: > all of that sounds quite straight-forward, and maybe you are right that > this should eventually become the _only_ supported way to distribute > add-on plugins. However, I am a bit reluctant to remove the GHNS-based > approac

Re: [rkward-devel] a new approach to external plugins

2011-08-10 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi, On Wednesday 10 August 2011, meik michalke wrote: > in summary, there's only two differences: > - a valid DESCRIPTION needs to be added (which is very easy, using >write.dcf(), which i just discovered for myself... see below) > - all the previous contets move unchanged as they are from t

Re: [rkward-devel] a new approach to external plugins

2011-08-10 Thread meik michalke
hi, Am Montag, 8. August 2011, 17:41:26 schrieb meik michalke: > you can easily create an "R package" that has no real package payload (like > i said, a valid DESCRIPTION file is roughly it). so we'd just have to > alter the specification of external plugins a little, so that each > external RKWa

Re: [rkward-devel] a new approach to external plugins

2011-08-10 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi, On Tuesday 09 August 2011, meik michalke wrote: > > (Timing is a bit difficult, since the metric of interest is time spent > > with cold disk cache. When the disk cache is hot, > > .rk.get.installed.packages() is pretty fast, anyway). > > doesn't installed.packages() chache its results anyway