[Rd] Rgnome depends on obsolete components libglade/libxml (PR#8247)

[Duncan Temple Lang]

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It is probably more sensible to rewrite this using the bindings
to Gtk+-2 and keep it purely in R so that we can more
readily customize the GUI.  There is a simple prototype in
the RGtk package and if anyone was interested, they can
do this with the soon to be released RGtk2 package.



Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> 
>>hin-tak.leung at cimr.cam.ac.uk writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Full_Name: Hin-Tak Leung
>>>Version: R 2.2.0
>>>OS: x86 linux
>>>Submission from: (NULL) (131.111.126.242)
>>>
>>>
>>>Rgnome depends libglade 0.x and libxml 1.x .
>>>
>>>They are no longer shipped with Redhat EL4.
>>>(I know they are still in fedora core 4).
>>>
>>>Just a wish-list.
>>
>>
>>But what is the wish? 
>>
>>You mean get it upgraded to xml2 and glade2? Patches would likely be
>>accepted... 
>>
> 
> 
> :-). libglade went from 0.17 to 1.99 then 2.x, but the current Rgnome 
> code depends on some of <0.17-specific stuff.
> 
> Already tried against libglade 2 - not trivial. It probably also 
> requires changing to gtk2 also...
> 
> Just like to have it in the distant TODO list, and not forgotten...
> 
> Hin-Tak Leung
> 
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