On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 19:01 -0500, Marc Schwartz wrote: > Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: > > The R-gnomeGUI package relies on ancient gnome libs to function, and > > since those libs are going away in -devel, I'm retiring this package. If > > anyone is motivated to do the work to port this code to gtk2, then I > > would be happy to give them ownership of this package. > > > > ~spot > > Tom, > > Is this situation FC specific or more general for GNOME moving forward? Fedora Core is dropping the ancient GNOME 1 libs in FC-6. GNOME long ago moved way past the point where R-gnomeGUI stopped. > Barring somebody wanting to port to gtk2, what was a spartan proof of > concept GUI for R, it may be time to finally retire the CRAN package to > orphan status. Or perhaps to simply make the code available for example > purposes, but not have a functional version if the libs are no longer > going to be available. That's a call for R Core to make. Yep. > There are certainly better evolving GUI's for R for those that might > want one. If there is a good gtk2 GUI console (I could not find one), I would be willing to put it in Fedora Extras. At one point, the gnomeGUI tool was described to me as having: "... not been developed in some years. It is more of a technology demonstration than a useable GUI." Based on that feedback from upstream, and the removal of GNOME 1 libs from Fedora Core, I've opted to retire this package. ~spot -- Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Senior Sales Engineer || GPG ID: 93054260 Fedora Extras Steering Committee Member (RPM Standards and Practices) Aurora Linux Project Leader: http://auroralinux.org Lemurs, llamas, and sparcs, oh my! -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
