RStudio

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

On 03/19/2011 03:24 PM, lameire alexis wrote:
>> The external dependencies (see dependencies/common/install-gwt) are a
>> bit troubling. It might take a while to sort this out -- we'd need all
>> of these to be shipped in Fedora, and tweak the build scripts to find them.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>
> I'm also working on packaging RStudio. The upstream rpm is an awful
> crap, automatically generated :(.
>
I've not even looked at their RPM, I just start off from their compile 
instructions. Right now I'm just including the three Java .zips that 
RStudio downloads, and patched the download script to do nothing; I 
wanted to focus on making sure RStudio works first, and figuring out 
where to put files, before handling the dependency probs. esp. since 
they use an older version of Guide and GWT.

> GWT was packaged by the JPackage project (it's can be a good startpoint)
> and so available on their repo. James Laska, the AutoQA developer,
> provides also this JPackage RPM in its AutoQA repo. I asked him if he
> was willing to submit one day GWT to the Fedora repos, but no answer for
> the moment.
>
Ideally James could maintain it in Fedora, yes. I'd be willing to give 
it a review if it's submitted.

Do you have a working RStudio spec already? I just started taking a look 
for an hour or so this afternoon, so I'd be happy to just review yours 
if you want.

-- 
Michel Alexandre Salim

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