[RkWard-devel] New website, release 0.3.3 (FreeBSD install)

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

> 1. The menu options: rkwardui.rc needs to be copied to
> /usr/local/share/apps/rkward (this isn't done automatically during the
> install).

Are you sure, this does not happen automatically? Before this, did 
you ./configure / install with the correct --prefix?
Could you try to install to a clean directory tree, and see, whether the files 
(also all other .rc-files in the sources) really don't get copied:

make install DESTDIR=/tmp/somedir/

> 4. rkward didn't work (still couldn't find libR.so) until I copied (on a
> whim)
>
> 	sudo cp /usr/local/lib/R/lib/libR.so /usr/local/lib/libR.so
>
> ...worked fine after that.

This is pretty much a mystery to me. On debian there is no /usr/lib/libR.so, 
only /usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so, and it works fine. Does anybody else have an 
idea on this?
You wrote previously, that this error only showed up, when trying to load an R 
package/library. Could you try temporarily removing /usr/local/lib/libR.so 
again, and then in RKWard, in the console, run

require (rkward)

Does this return TRUE?

> 5. Also noticed that the rkward installation did not install a /plugins
> folder anywhere.  Had to copy it from the build directory to get rkward to
> stop complaining on launch.

Oh dear. Actually rkward only copies the contents of the plugins-folder (not 
the whole folder). However, I forgot to update the makefile to install the 
most important one of them (standard_plugins.pluginmap).
I guess I should put up a notice on the web-site, and do a new release, soon.

> Thanks for the help, Thomas.  I hope this feedback will help you in
> development and anyone else trying to install on FreeBSD.

Yes, feedback is always very important. I try to test new releases as good as 
I can, but I can't try out every single thing, and I only have one system to 
test. Many people will run into problems/notice bugs, but few take the time 
to report them. Reporting them, however, is the only way to make sure, they 
will not go unnoticed.

Thomas