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

[Xu Wang]

OK thank you for your reply! It is too bad the environment is not
right yet in Ubuntu, but I will keep hoping that things work out.

Thank you for all of your work!

Kind regards,

Xu

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 8:02 PM, JJ Allaire <jj at rstudio.com> wrote:
> We still haven't gone to Qt 5.6 unfortunately. They've deprecated QtWebKit
> (which is part of the Qt 5.4 release which we are on now) so that's not a
> good place to be long term.
>
> Qt 5.6 includes the Chromium based QWebView and is also an LTS Qt release so
> it's definitely the right platform to be on. We have a very small team
> though and many other priorities, bug fixes, etc. tend to intrude.
>
> J.J.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 7:53 PM, Xu Wang <xuwang762 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Xu Wang <xuwang762 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 11:06 AM, JJ Allaire <jj at rstudio.com> wrote:
>> >> Not yet. We need to migrate to Qt 5.6 then I think it will be pretty
>> >> seamless.
>> >
>> > I see. Thank you for update and for your kind work, J.J.!
>>
>> Hi JJ,
>>
>> Any update? It seems it did not make it into Ubuntu 16.04. But thank
>> you very much for trying! I really appreciate your effort. Perhaps
>> there is a chance we can get it into 16.10?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Xu
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Kind regards,
>> >
>> > Xu
>> >
>> >>
>> >> J.J.
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Xu Wang <xuwang762 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:42 AM, JJ Allaire <jj at rstudio.com> wrote:
>> >>> > It seems likely that it will be in 16.04 since it's due in December
>> >>> > of
>> >>> > this
>> >>> > year. That would indeed be a good time for things to come together!
>> >>> >
>> >>> > J.J.
>> >>>
>> >>> Can anyone confirm that the rstudio package is now in the 16.04 repos
>> >>> ? That would be exciting!
>> >>>
>> >>> Kind regards,
>> >>>
>> >>> Xu
>> >>
>> >>
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