Message-ID: <19282.38507.836369.973106@ron.nulle.part>
Date: 2010-01-17T04:47:39Z
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Subject: optional package dependency
In-Reply-To: <1263668014.26202.75.camel@corn.betterworld.us>
On 16 January 2010 at 10:53, Ross Boylan wrote:
| On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 07:49 -0800, Seth Falcon wrote:
| > Package authors
| > should be responsible enough to test their codes with and without
| > optional features.
| It seems unlikely most package authors will have access to a full range
| of platform types.
For Windows, I use the win-builder.r-project.org more and more. A really
useful tool. Kudos to Uwe and Olaf for running this.
For OS X, a 'mac-builder.r-project.org' would be very helpful. Just this eve
I discussed OS X build issues ... without having any access to machine with
OS X.
For Linux, the admission to CRAN is a good test. And I dare say the cran2deb
autobuilder Charles and I are running also puts a decent test on things --
even more so that the usual CRAN test as we run builds in so-called pbuilder
chroot so that eg missing dependencies really pop up.
So: 2 up, 1 to go. Any volunteers for scripting OS X towards a builder service?
Dirk
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