R-1.4.1 scheduled for Jan 30

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

As I presume no fixes were made to correct the mips and mipsel failures,
would such a snapshot release really provide incremental information?

Some, yes.  Sometimes fixes for one platform break another.  As a real

[...]

Good point. On the other hand, all this will show is gcc et al on different
Linux arches.

Does that inform a cost-benefit analysis for you?

Sure. But one other problem I forgot earlier is that the timeframe might
simply be too tight -- it could be Sunday before most of the systems catch
up, and that would leave little time for R-core to try to mend things.

I could try to do it this eve if there is a view at your end that it is
useful. I guess it wouldn't hurt, overall. 

Dirk

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