Re: [igraph] About the cannoical place for igraph

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 09:47:53AM -0500, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> Hi Pierre,
> 
> igraph.sourceforge.net is the official homepage, get the tarball
> there, under 'Download'.

Hi Gábor,

Thanks for your quick reply.

So the latest version is 0.6.5? Do you know the difference with the one on CRAN?

Also, how should I compile it? ./configure make doesn't work and R CMD BUILD
doesn't seem to install the header files.

Regards,
Pierre


> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Pierre-Yves Chibon <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have taken over the maintaince of the igraph and python-igraph packages in
> > Fedora a while ago but I only now find time to look into it and look into
> > updating them.
> >
> > The current versions available are rather old now: 0.5.4 for both igraph and
> > python-igraph.
> >
> > My first problem has been to find the canonical place of igraph, so far I 
> > have
> > found:
> >
> > - http://igraph.sourceforge.net/
> >   - latest version 0.6.5 in February 2013
> >   - sources look like a R module, which I managed to compile as such using
> >     `R CMD INSTALL`
> >   - however, most of the code under src/ seems to not install (the headers 
> > files
> >     for example)
> >
> > - https://code.google.com/p/igraph/
> >   - No information on the project page as to if the project is still hosted
> >     there or if it has moved
> >   - The download tab gives a list of nightly builds
> >   - The sources tab refers to launchpad
> >   - No real idea of the latest version
> >
> > - https://launchpad.net/igraph
> >   - Clearly says the project has moved to github
> >   - Mentions a 0.6.5 release in March 2013
> >   - Latest commits on the sources seems to be from last month
> >   - The download link refers to sourceforge
> >
> > - https://github.com/igraph/igraph
> >   - Lastest commits are from October 2013
> >   - Annouces 7 releases (tags) of which the latest (stable) seems to 0.6.6
> >   - Sources seems to contain parts of all of other projects and bundles them
> >     - see nexus folder
> >     - see src/lapack
> >     - see src/plfit which looks like a bundle of 
> > https://github.com/ntamas/plfit/
> >     - see msvc/include/libxml
> >       - files in this folder seems to not mention any license
> >     - msvc/iconv.h seems to come from the `GNU LIBICONV Library`
> >     - optional/glpk is licensed GPLv3+ while igraph itself is licensed 
> > GPLv2+
> >     - the interfaces/python setup.py has a 0.6.6 release which is absent 
> > from
> >       pypi https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-igraph
> >   - If I download the 0.6.5 release from github I get a completely different
> >     tarball than from sourceforge or cran
> >
> > - http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/igraph/index.html
> >   - latest version 0.6.6
> >   - mentions igraph.sourceforget.net as website but as mentionned above that
> >     website is at 0.6.5
> >
> > - Browsing the archives of this mailing list, I saw an igraph.org website
> >   mentionned, but it returns me a 404 page
> >
> >
> > So to be honest, I am a little lost. What is the canonical source for igraph
> > development?
> > Which one should I use for updating the Fedora packages?
> > And how should I compile these sources? The python binding is looking for
> > <igraph_datatype.h> which is present in the sources of the R package (cran,
> > sourceforge) but is not installed by `R CMD BUILD`.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help,
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Pierre
> >
> >
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