Frankie Robertson

Instructions on how to test my branch together with ConadPkg are here: https://github.com/JuliaPy/CondaPkg.jl/issues/100#issuecomment-1676824947 Please let me know if you have any problems or have identified any issues, and I will...

> Only that other packages call RCall's __init__ method during precompilation sounds quite horrifying actually... is this really so? This surprised me at first, but this is in fact always...

Sure. One concrete advantage I can see is that we wouldn't end up with one copies of RCall.jl bytecode for each R installation.

Looks this PR does something related: https://github.com/JuliaInterop/RCall.jl/pull/409

Does this not work https://timholy.github.io/Revise.jl/stable/config/#Polling-and-NFS-mounted-code-directories:-JULIA_REVISE_POLL ?

Doesn't that already exist too? https://github.com/timholy/Revise.jl/blob/13a5eb7986ee1239ff938a92043c13fee04579cc/src/packagedef.jl#L851-L856

I believe this is still a problem even though the file watching tasks this revision_event watching loop should typically end up running in the same thread (the file watching tasks...

I'm not sure if locking one of the places the event is fired with the revision_lock solves the issue. The problem is that for `Condition`, `notify(...)` will only wake up...

I'm not sure what happened there since there seem to be two levels of `bin` in your R_HOME There have been some changes to this in the newest version. Perhaps...

These kind of linking problems are somehow bound to happen. There are multiple versions of libcurl knocking about and it's not clear whether RCall.jl can arrange for the correct one...