[Qgis-developer] R plugins

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Volkan Kepoglu <vkepoglu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> yes, it is true. sda4pp plugin uses rpy2 (2.0.3)
>
> very interesting error. I have never seen before.
>
> if i have time, will i upgrade the spqr to use rpy2, if Bary do not mind?
>

 It's released under the GPL, so I don't have any say in the matter
even if I did mind :)

 But the problem is that we need to keep rpy-1 and rpy-2 versions
going, since rpy-2 isn't that mainstream yet (by which I mean "isn't
in the ubuntu repositories" :) ).

 So I'm not sure what the best solution for developing and deploying a
rpy-2 compatible version of spqr would be. Currently I'm thinking I
need to create a new plugin, lets's say called spqr2, in my bsrplugins
repository, and give you (Volkan) commit access (which probably means
you get commit access to all the bsrplugins, but that's okay), and
then I just add spqr2 to my qgis repository for deployment. The info
for spqr2 will make it clear that it is rpy-2 compatible.

 We could just create a new SVN branch for it, but currently my code
for building the repository from SVN doesn't handle that - it only
exports 'trunk' (I think). In effect creating a new plugin is like a
new branch anyway, since all the bsrplugins sit in the same SVN space.

Barry