Advantages to using a configure script for package building

[MarcusKlik]

Hi @thekvs , compliments on building a nice and clean wrapper around the zstd compression library!

Is there a specific reason why you are building the zstd library using a configure script ? For package fst I'm only using the relevant files from zstd's source code and use R's default build process. Are there any specific advantages to using a configure script ?

Great work!

[thekvs]

Hi!
Probably not. I'll try to use R's default build system, thanks for the hint!

[MarcusKlik]

Hi, thanks. I suspect that your package will pass the CRAN tests more easily as well if you just put the code that you need in the src directory (for base functionality, only a few files are required).

few more questions about your package:

• Are you thinking about using multiple threads to compress and decompress the raw vectors (e.g. using OpenMP) ?
• Are you planning to write an interface that leverages the dictionary compression in zstd ?