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Redland librdf language bindings
http://librdf.org/bindings/
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Do we need all the python/php/etc? #22

Closed Ironholds closed 9 years ago

Ironholds commented 9 years ago

I'm wondering if it might not be a better idea, rather than forking off redland-bindings, to create a dedicated rdf repo that just embeds the RDF C library, in the same way that (say) xml2 includes libxml to maximise portability.

(This might be premature/overthinking, though)

cboettig commented 9 years ago

@Ironholds This makes it easier to send a pull-request back to the official redlands-bindings that will add support for R. Note that R users will have no need to ever download or see those files, they will be able to directly install the R package from CRAN or whatever that just happens to be built from these scripts but contains only what is needed to run on R. I think this is the best of both worlds in avoiding fragmentation and contributing back upstream in a way consistent with the existing standard, while also providing a friendly user end. @sbpcs59 and @mbjones have been doing all the real work though so I leave them to chime in. I think they might appreciate your use-cases re RDF and RDFA though too.

mbjones commented 9 years ago

Yeah, the goal is to be able to fork and PR back to the upstream repository. We are close but not yet quite ready to install directly into R from the R/redland package directory, and once that is working, then both install.packages() and install_github() will work without the rest of the code. But we send pull requests back easily this way.

Ironholds commented 9 years ago

Gotcha!

mbjones commented 9 years ago

Installation is working now from the R/redland subdirectory. Parent directories maintain the relationship to the upstream redland-bindings repository. We'll issue a pull request to merge soon, but closing this question now.