Bug#617296: Any Progress with RStudio?
On 6 September 2013 at 16:38, Lifeng Sun wrote:
| Hi,
|
| On 02:58 Fri 09/06/13 Sep , Rogério Brito wrote:
| > If there is indeed interest in packaging R Studio, Lifeng, can you say so?
| > The last public activity from yours was making this bug an ITP on 12 Oct
| > 2012, which soon will be 12 months old.
|
| A short answer is "yes", but ...
|
| IMHO, the most difficult part to get rstudio in Debian official
| archive is that rstudio build-depends on several (5 or so) Java
| packages missing in Debian. The upstream approach is to ship them as
| convenient libraries in binary package, which is unreasonable for
| Debian official package, and it's quite a lot of nontrivial work to
| package them first. For example, one of them is gwt, a large complex
| Java library once in unstable removed recently due to grave bugs.
Really? I am pretty good friends with the RStudio team, and know them as
hard-core C++-ers. There are (were?) newer Qt parts, Boost parts, ... in
there but I'd be very surprised to find Java.
[ And yes, it remains a very large and complicated package. I have no
capacity to help, sorry. ]
Dirk
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Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
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