R-1.4.1 scheduled for Jan 30
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:32:31PM +0100, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
Those of you that have unusual platforms could be doing us a favour if you try building snapshot versions and report back if there are problems.
I could make a snapshot Debian release which would then be thrown at the twelve distinct architectures Debian supports. On the other hand, 1.4.0 already builds on 9 of these as shown on http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=r-base 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 example, Rinternals.h was causing two C++-based compilers to object. I changed a couple of declarations to a form that Metrowerks was known to accept, and it passed on four others. Then Luke found HP-UX's C compiler objected, and had to change it again. I really don't know how much independent evidence Debian's different architectures provides, but my guess is that no else will be able to check a 64-bit Linux. Does that inform a cost-benefit analysis for you?
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