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testing on platforms, was Fortran error

2 messages · John C Nash, Simon Urbanek

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John C Nash
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I think the poster is interested in being able to try the build/check on a Mac in the
fashion that Winbuilder does. That is, rather than have CRAN do all the platform checks,
is there a way to submit a package to be tested for just one platform?

It may be useful to have such a facility so package builders can test before submission,
and from my own experience I believe would help to render packages more platform neutral.

I suspect that all the pieces are in place to do this, but perhaps a nice front end is
needed. Is that something for a Google Summer of Code task?

Best,

JN
On 11/21/2011 06:00 AM, r-devel-request at r-project.org wrote:
Simon Urbanek
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John,
On Nov 21, 2011, at 8:17 AM, John C Nash wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
It has been discussed and there was a tentative plan (which involves getting a dedicated machine for this and R-forge builds), but nothing happened so far.

            

      
      
      
    

        
Software infrastructure is not a problem. For example I have full multi-platform submission system in place for my RForge.net (since I'm building Linux, OS X and Windows).

Personally, my view is that developers should be using the existing package-based build systems (like R-forge or RForge.net). I am paranoid and thus reluctant to perform builds on my own systems for packages that have no source provenance (i.e. if I don't have an accountable registered user) - for security reasons.

Cheers,
Simon