Last R-devel snapshot is an empty tarball - R-devel

Wed, Oct 4, 2006 7:04 PM #

Dear list,

The last R-devel snapshot (2006-10-03) is an empty tarball:
  ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/
Thanks,

H.

Peter Dalgaard

Thu, Oct 5, 2006 12:40 AM #

Herve Pages <hpages at fhcrc.org> writes:

We know... "make dist" was broken for a while. The unstable
development version will occasionally develop instabilities...

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Seth Falcon

Thu, Oct 5, 2006 6:51 AM #

Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> writes:

Might this be a good forum to announce such problems when they become
known?  

+ seth

Peter Dalgaard

Thu, Oct 5, 2006 6:59 AM #

Seth Falcon <sfalcon at fhcrc.org> writes:

Yes, in principle. We tend to want to fix them rather than announce
them, though. (It wasn't realized that there was a problem until
yesterday when Kurt was adjusting his package check procedures after
Tuesday's release.)

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Martin Maechler

Thu, Oct 5, 2006 7:42 AM #

PD> Seth Falcon <sfalcon at fhcrc.org> writes:
    >> Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> writes:
    >> > Herve Pages <hpages at fhcrc.org> writes:
    >> >
    >> >> Dear list,
    >> >> 
    >> >> The last R-devel snapshot (2006-10-03) is an empty tarball:
    >> >>   ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/
    >> >
    >> > We know... "make dist" was broken for a while. The unstable
    >> > development version will occasionally develop instabilities...
    >> 
    >> Might this be a good forum to announce such problems when they become
    >> known?  

    PD> Yes, in principle. We tend to want to fix them rather than announce
    PD> them, though.

I had sent Herve a private message with similar content.
You could also just send them to the core team, or,
if you know who is responsible, as in the present case, I am,
send it to me directly.   The smaller the forum, the better for
things that *are* important. 

Martin

    PD>  (It wasn't realized that there was a problem until
    PD> yesterday when Kurt was adjusting his package check procedures after
    PD> Tuesday's release.)