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Bug#617296: Any Progress with RStudio?



On 6 September 2013 at 05:30, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| 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.

Checked with upstream over IM, and yes, they do use Java to generate 300k of
Javascript.  So GWT is used for that.

JJ also mentioned that they need to upgrade to Qt 5.1.1 which entail a number
of changes; probably not worth packaging before that.  

The 0.99 release may be a good starting point at which they plan to update
their dependencies.  So wait and see..
 
Dirk

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Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com


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