[Bioc-devel] Boost as build dependency ?

Hi,

this is 37MB compressed.  RBGL compressed for distribution is 1.2 MB.
i am a little concerned about added complexity/size of this approach.

Yes indeed. The size increase results from also the sources
being distributed, not just the includes.

Since I only build a subset of the libraries, 
we could remove the unused bits which should result 
in (drastically ?) reduced file sizes. I didn't bother yet,
because I expect disecting boost to be a non-trivial task. 
I could be wrong here.

Or are there already source tarballs for the individual boost libs ?

Also you're correct,

why don't you distribute an installable R package built by R CMD
build?

In the end BioC would distribute the installable package 
at least for Mac/Windows, with a file size of 1.2MB for headers
plus ~1.1MB for the libs that I build. Linux will still have 
the RBOOST source package, though.

Also not covered in my initial proposal: 
what about versions ? Should RBOOST carry 
the boost version number in its name ? 
RBOOST138 ? Which special characters are allowed in R packages?
That way one could have multiple BOOST versions 
installed in parallel, if one depending package 
insists on an older version.

Yours,
Steffen

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