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- assume that Python 2.4 and 2.5 are compatible and allow checking for
fallout.
- remove PYTHON_VERSIONS_COMPATIBLE that are obsoleted by the 2.3+
default. Modify the others to deal with the removals.
New features:
* Dramatically simplify the build process for Win32
* It is now possible to use setup.cfg to control various aspects of the
build process. 'config.in' contains a template containing all available
options and what they do.
Bug fixes
* RPy compiled with Numeric support will no longer crash when run with
Numeric available.
* Crash during import when R is missing from the registry
* Problem using R Wavelets library with RPy
* RPy does not build on OS X, easy fix
* Plotting with RPy crashes Python
Other
* The rpy.py now communicates RHOME, RVER, RVERSION, RUSER from python to
the _rpy module using environment variables. This avoids the need to
have duplicate C code to obtain these values, and makes things both more
maintainable and more robust.
RECOMMENDED is removed. It becomes ABI_DEPENDS.
BUILDLINK_RECOMMENDED.foo becomes BUILDLINK_ABI_DEPENDS.foo.
BUILDLINK_DEPENDS.foo becomes BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.foo.
BUILDLINK_DEPENDS does not change.
IGNORE_RECOMMENDED (which defaulted to "no") becomes USE_ABI_DEPENDS
which defaults to "yes".
Added to obsolete.mk checking for IGNORE_RECOMMENDED.
I did not manually go through and fix any aesthetic tab/spacing issues.
I have tested the above patch on DragonFly building and packaging
subversion and pkglint and their many dependencies.
I have also tested USE_ABI_DEPENDS=no on my NetBSD workstation (where I
have used IGNORE_RECOMMENDED for a long time). I have been an active user
of IGNORE_RECOMMENDED since it was available.
As suggested, I removed the documentation sentences suggesting bumping for
"security" issues.
As discussed on tech-pkg.
I will commit to revbump, pkglint, pkg_install, createbuildlink separately.
Note that if you use wip, it will fail! I will commit to pkgsrc-wip
later (within day).
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
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Fixed bugs
o There was several memory leaks due to bad management of Python
refcounts.
o There was wrong synchronization of the thread running the R event
loop and the calls to the R interpreter.
o There was a bug with signal handling which caused segfault when
'Ctrl-C' were pressed.
o The R event loop shouldn't be run in non-interactive sessions.
o The i/o Python callbacks were wrong synchronized with the R event
loop thread.
New features
o Added a rpy_version symbol.
Inspired by FreeBSD "ports".
Fix the PLISTs accordingly.
Also, while at it, remove now obsolete compileall.py calls in post-install
targets and insure that extension.mk is in included before builinlinks of
other Python modules.
Discussed with/ok'ed by drochner@.
Package provided by Kent Polk <kent@goathill.org> in personal email.
RPy is a very simple, yet robust, Python interface to the R
Programming Language. It can manage all kinds of R objects and can
execute arbitrary R functions (including the graphic functions).
All the errors from the R language are converted to Python exceptions.
Any modules that later were installed on the R system, can easily
be used from within Python, without introducing any changes.
