[R-sig-Debian] Why is rstudio not in Ubuntu repo or PPA?

[Xu Wang]

Thanks so much for your explanatory details JJ and for all of your
work. It is highly appreciated!
I wonder if Qt 5.6 will be in the default repos for 16.04. That make a
nice time for things to come together.

Kind regards,

Xu

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 7:27 AM, JJ Allaire <jj at rstudio.com> wrote:
> The biggest issue we have right now is fragility of dependencies (mostly
> QtWebKit). To date it's been the case that minor Qt version updates can
> break things rather easily. We're hoping to move to QWebEngine in Qt 5.6
> which will hopefully stabilize that dependency (especially as the Qt 5.x
> line matures and most new development moves onto Qt 6.x).
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 23 September 2015 at 21:49, Xu Wang wrote:
>> | Hi,
>> |
>> | rstudio is very easy to install, but it would be great if it were just
>> | an apt-get away. Is there a reason it is not in Ubuntu main repos or
>> | in rrutter PPA?
>>
>> That is a question you have to ask RStudio, not us.
>>
>> There is somebody trying to package it for Debian, but I am not sure how
>> far
>> that effort has gotten.
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>> (For what it is worth, we now put the server and desktop .deb packages
>> into a
>> local "inside-the-firewall-only" repo at work, so with that we are not
>> redistributing it.)
>>
>> |
>> | Kind regards,
>> |
>> | Xu
>> |
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