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4 messages · Dirk Eddelbuettel, Lluís Revilla, Duncan Murdoch

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Dirk Eddelbuettel
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Years ago Duncan set up a nightly job to feed RSS based off changes to NEWS,
borrowing some setup parts from CRANberries as for example the RSS 'compiler'.

That job is currently showing the new \I{...} curly protection in an
unfavourable light. Copying from the RSS reader I had pointed at this since
the start [1], for today I see (indented by four spaces)

    CHANGES IN R-devel INSTALLATION on WINDOWS
    
    The makefiles and installer scripts for Windows have been tailored to
    \IRtools44, an update of the \IRtools43 toolchain. It is based on GCC 13
    and newer versions of \IMinGW-W64, \Ibinutils and libraries (targeting
    64-bit Intel CPUs). R-devel can no longer be built using \IRtools43
    without changes. 

    \IRtools44 has experimental suport for 64-bit ARM (aarch64) CPUs via LLVM
    17 toolchain using lld, clang/flang-new and libc++. 

Can some kind soul put a filter over it to remove the \I ?

Thanks,  Dirk

[1] Feedly. Unless we set this up so early that I once used Google
Reader. It's been a while...
Lluís Revilla
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Hi!

Thanks for this service! It is very helpful to know what is being developed.

I distribute the content to other venues and I noticed some times that the
updates are duplicated.
For example, the sentence "?is.R()? is deprecated as no other S dialect is
known to be in use (and this could only identify historical dialects, not
future ones)." is duplicated in different days:
Day 1:
https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2024/03/07#n2024-03-07
Day 2:
https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2024/03/09#n2024-03-09

I tried to look up how to avoid duplications with Blosxom
<http://blosxom.sourceforge.net/> but I didn't find a way.
It would be great if this could be further improved to avoid this
duplication.

Thanks!

Llu?s
On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 at 13:50, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Duncan Murdoch
    

    

      
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Usually the duplication happens because there's a small change between 
the entries, e.g. a spelling correction.  Other times it's not 
duplication, but a substantive change to the NEWS entry, so those really 
should be duplicated.

I can't spot a change in the example you gave, so it's probably a change 
to the white space.  The comparison code tries to ignore those changes, 
but it doesn't always get it right.

Sometime I should put the code on Github so others can fix bugs like 
this.  It's currently in a private SVN repository (and has been since I 
wrote it about 16 years ago).

Duncan Murdoch

        
On 15/03/2024 12:04 p.m., Llu?s Revilla wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Duncan Murdoch
    

    

      
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I have now put the files online at https://github.com/dmurdoch/diffnews 
.  It seemed like too much trouble to include the SVN history, so this 
is just a copy of the current version of the files.

Duncan Murdoch

        
On 15/03/2024 12:04 p.m., Llu?s Revilla wrote: