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How to upload metapost driver ?

2 messages · Geoff Russell, Brian Ripley

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Hi all,

To develop the metapost driver, I did an svn checkout (R-2-4-branch
revision 40647)
as instructed in

http://developer.r-project.org/SVNtips.html

i.e., I did a,

       svn co $REPOS/branches/R-2-4-branch r-release-branch/R

Not being a core developer, can I just commit the changes?  Am I
on the right branch?

Most of the work is in devPS.c, but there are also some
documentation changes (e.g, Devices.Rd).

Cheers
Geoff Russell

P.S. The driver isn't quite finished but I thought I'd ask now, in case I was
working on the wrong branch!
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It is best to prepare a package with your work, as other authors of 
graphics devices have done.

Only work maintained by the core developers goes into the main source, and 
we don't have an metapost gurus to maintain it, AFAIK.
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Geoff Russell wrote:

            
Not for developing R itself, but you are not doing that.  All new material 
goes into the trunk, and patches are then transferred to the active 
R-patched branch.