Is there any chance to use rjson instead of RJSONIO in googleVis

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Markus,

On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 02:47:46PM +0100, Markus Gesmann wrote:
> I haven't published the new version on CRAN yet, as I hoped you would test the package beforehand. 

Ahh, OK - so waiting for CRAN update is pointless. :-)
 
> Can you do that?

Yes, but could you please tag the release since this enables automatic
download of release tarballs which saves me the work of writing a
download script as instead just pointing an existing tool to the Github
URL.  Tagging releases makes sense anyway.

> I would hate to make the change to jsonlite if anything would stop working as a result of this. 

ACK.

> Best regards 

Same

     Andreas.
 
> Markus
> 
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> 
> > On 4 Jul 2016, at 13:27, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi again,
> > 
> > seems the new version needs some time to show up on CRAN.  Is there any
> > chance that you set tags for the release versions on Github which would
> > simplify downloading the tarball a lot?
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > 
> >        Andreas.
> > 
> >> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 02:35:11PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> >> Thanks a lot, that's very helpful, Andreas.
> >> 
> >>> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 10:47:55AM +0100, Markus Gesmann wrote:
> >>> Hi Andreas,
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks for the little challenge ;-) 
> >>> 
> >>> It appears to be straightforward to change googleVis from RJSONIO to jsonlite.
> >>> 
> >>> You can access version 0.6.0 of googleVis (using jsonlite) from GitHub: https://github.com/mages/googleVis.
> >>> 
> >>> I would very much appreciate, if you could test as well.
> >>> 
> >>> Best regards
> >>> 
> >>> Markus
> >>> 
> >>> —
> >>> Markus Gesmann
> >>> Blog: www.magesblog.com
> >>> 
> >>>> On 2 Jul 2016, at 09:48, Andreas Tille <andreas at fam-tille.de> wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>> Hi Markus,
> >>>> 
> >>>>> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 10:08:54AM +0200, Markus Gesmann wrote:
> >>>>> We opted for RJSONIO at the time as we believed it is has the better performance.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> If would start the project today, we would probably go with Jeroen Ooms’ jsonlite package, which is also MIT, as RJSONIO and rjson don’t appear to be actively developed anymore.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Jsonlite would be fine as well.
> >>>> 
> >>>>> Perhaps, you can encourage the other package developers to change their license.
> >>>> 
> >>>> What package developers do you mean?  Do you think RJSONIO should change
> >>>> to pure MIT?  That's probably not possible since they are using code
> >>>> from the (famous) non-evil author who has fought endless flamewars to
> >>>> defend his crazy idea (as if evil people would care for a license ...
> >>>> :-().
> >>>> 
> >>>> Do you think there is much effort to port googleVis to jsonlite?
> >>>> 
> >>>> Kind regards
> >>>> 
> >>>>      Andreas.
> >>>> 
> >>>>>> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 12:31:54AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi Markus,
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> I intend to package googleVis for Debian.  I realised that it depends
> >>>>>> from RJSONIO which is using code with MIT-no-evil license - which is
> >>>>>> actually evil since it is non-free. 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Could googleVis be adapted to use r-cran-rjson instead?  It is
> >>>>>> mentioned here in the Debian bug tracking system:
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712159#32
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> This would be really helpful
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>>     Andreas.
> >>>>>> 
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