From Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at  Mon Jan 31 15:26:24 2000
From: Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at (Kurt Hornik)
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 16:26:24 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Rd] Re: HDF5 as a module
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000131162513.plummer@iarc.fr>
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>>>>> Martyn Plummer writes:

> On 31-Jan-00 Kurt Hornik wrote:
>> * It would be nice to merge this into Doug Bates' foreign package.

> I would prefer if you didn't do this.  The dependence of hdf5 on external
> libraries causes problems when you distribute binary versions of R.
> We currently have two RPMs for R: R-base and R-base-with-hdf5.  The only
> difference between the two is that the latter is linked against libhdf5
> and the functions hdf5save() and hdf5load() are enabled.  Putting hdf5
> in a separate package means that we can distribute a single RPM for
> R-base, and provide the extra functionality of access to hdf5 files in
> a separate add-on package. Merging hdf5 and foreign would put us back
> in the original position.

But only if foreign is part of R, no?

(But I have no problem if hdf5 stays separate.)

-k
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[Rd] Re: HDF5 as a module
Kurt Hornik