Message-ID: <CABtg=KkBiy3SXksysavEoCAcsomzgrS77sGDFfKkw1sOMvN-qg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2015-06-09T22:39:47Z
From: Gábor Csárdi
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN and CMake
In-Reply-To: <5577675F.40706@gmail.com>
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> 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