

Simon Urbanek schrieb:

>Knut,
>
>On Oct 9, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Knut Krueger wrote:
>
>  
>
>>>If you prefer SciViews, JGR, R Commander, etc., then you should  
>>>expect
>>>some delay before R releases and compatible GUI releases. Indeed, one
>>>must say that R Commander has always been released on time with the
>>>latest R version, as fart as I know, and JGR is very close to.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>and this is the point that I thought maybe there could be some   
>>improvement with an universal API for GUIs
>>    
>>
>
>
>As Brian was pointing out there is such an API and as with all APIs  
>it is allowed to improve between releases. ...
>

Ok all your answers are clarifying the points of discussion about GUIs.
I think I could say that I should not recommend a GUI which is not 
updated since the 1.4 Version.
It seems to be that it was a "Mc Murphy" problem that I recommended 
SCIviews in the institute just a week before the compatibility was 
broken with the newest version.


> From my point of view I can say that building and testing of  
>installers and binaries takes far more time than fixing the code for  
>API changes. If you are willing to build and test binaries during the  
>R beta phase, you're encouraged to do so - that would make the GUI  
>available right on time for the R release.
>
OK as I wrote, I am out of order with programming technique about 10 
years now. A very long time for technical solutions.
And I was working in a different language. I have small experience in C 
but lot in Assembler and Pascal (my biggest program of my own was about 
65.000 lines).
Pascal was required because it was very save for experimental and often 
changing programs.

If you think I could start testing first and if this would be helpful I 
could start,. but I will have more time after January.

But I am still a Newbie in R maybe there might be some problems and 
needless questions the first time. and maybe you are able to find tasks 
for the first steps in the community.

Regards Knut


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