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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/21/2014 11:22 PM, M. Edward (Ed)
Borasky wrote:<br>
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<div>I think the Fedora policy requires more of a commitment
from maintainers than I can offer. In any event, I know
RStudio Server can be built from source on Fedora and that it
works but it needs a lot of detailed attention to turn it into
something that will make it into a release. It has a few
dependencies - gwt, for one - that aren't in Fedora so their
source needs to be packaged in the source RPM.<br>
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<div>There's also the question of upstream - they have a build
process that makes usable binaries for openSUSE and Fedora but
only support the server on Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL and CentOS. I
did get them to fix some issues when their run-time
dependencies messed up a Fedora R upgrade, but I don't know if
they'd actively participate in a distro packaging effort.
They'd need to be asked.<br>
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All that said, this is a good time to start such a project,
since Fedora 21 is about two weeks away from release. I have a
COPR project opened but haven't put anything in it yet - <a
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 8:38 PM,
Suchakra <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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> What do you say, Ed? If I get the package review
done, will you help with<br>
> bugs and maintenance?<br>
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> --Pete<br>
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</span>I am using RStudio actively on Fedora using the rpm
they provide.<br>
Though it works just about satisfactorily for me
standalone, it would<br>
really be nice to have it in our repos. I can help in
testing/bugs and<br>
occasional maintenance.<br>
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I just glanced at their github repo.. wow.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/releases">https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/releases</a> - it looks like they are
tagging a 'release' every time they touch the code. There's also a
lot of bundling; probably not an insurmountable amount, but it won't
be an easy one to package.<br>
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As for upstream suppport... well, the bundling is indicative of how
they'd probably feel about keeping up with our dependency churn. It
isn't uncommon for upstreams to not actively participate in the
packaging process, but if they're taking the stance where 'we only
support the latest release (ha!) with these specific versions of
deps' it would be a nightmare. Detailed attention is right :)<br>
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Anyway, I'll keep an eye on this thread and if there's enough
interest, I'll happily participate in the packaging. Still
definitely more than I want to take on alone - but it does look like
an interesting challenge.<br>
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-- Pete</pre>
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