From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/19] gnu: Add r-bh. Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 14:02:29 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87fv2h8ecn.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53700) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcXtj-00071f-CQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 08:02:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcXte-0003GU-2v for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 08:02:42 -0400 Received: from pegasus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de ([141.80.25.20]:36887) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcXtd-0003Fz-Qr for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 08:02:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Vicente Vera Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Vicente Vera writes: > I don't know if the boost package in the distribution could be used to > comply with the requirements. IMO it is safer to incorporate r-bh as > it is needed by dplyr. I took a look at the README file and have come to the conclusion that it is best to add the package as is rather than trying to wrap the existing Boost headers. The section =E2=80=9CUpdating=E2=80=9D states the followi= ng: We aim to maintain this package in a somewhat conservative fashion and do not immediately jump the newest Boost releases. Rather, we start from the Debian sources for Boost to ensure that we work with a version that is at the same time current yet mature. But on occassion, and as needed, we will go directly to Boost releases. This means that we should treat this like an independent fork as they don=E2=80=99t necessarily move as fast as our Boost package would. Also,= they only keep a subset of the Boost headers. The biggest value in having an actual R package here is that other R packages that declare a dependency on Boost headers will be satisfied. I=E2=80=99m planning to amend the patch today and push it if there are no objections against this. ~~ Ricardo