[R-pkg-devel] CRAN and CMake
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
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The DESCRIPTION file says this: OS_type: unix SystemRequirements: clang (recommended) One of the CRAN policies is "Package authors should make all reasonable efforts to provide cross-platform portable code." cmake describes itself as a cross-platform solution and offers Windows binaries, so does it really make sense to limit it to Unix?
That's not needed. I am fairly sure that cmake works on all platforms R works on, and more. So we can fix that.
Also of concern are the export restrictions on this page: http://www.cmake.org/download/ I suspect CRAN isn't going to want to be involved with those.
It does not apply to cmake. This is just a generic disclaimer on their web page. cmake is included in virtually all Linux distributions and it is distributed from the US. Gabor
Duncan Murdoch