From jason at acm.org  Wed Jan 30 20:32:16 2008
From: jason at acm.org (jason at acm.org)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:32:16 -0800
Subject: [Rd] [rfc] Package to access the internal zlib library.
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801300907480.6559@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk> (Brian
	Ripley's message of "Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:20:13 +0000 (GMT)")
References: <874pcvu415.fsf@sparse.yi.org>
	<alpine.LFD.1.00.0801300907480.6559@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <87odb3rtxb.fsf@sparse.yi.org>

And Brian Ripley writes:
> The *only* safe thing to do is to include your own copy of
> zlib, and compile it into the package (optionally linking
> instead to the system copy if it exists).

Fair enough, and likely necessary on AIX with XCOFF's
restrictions.  The Rcompression package mentioned by Duncan Lang
has most of what I need, so I should help with Rcompression
instead.

> Please note that Uwe Ligges provides a Windows testing service:
> see 'Writing R Extensions' and the R-admin manual.  You don't
> need to ask others to do this for you.

Great!  Thank you and Uwe Ligges!  I completely missed the
"Services" section.

Jason



[Rd] [rfc] Package to access the internal zlib library.
jason at acm.org