On Nov 7, 2007, at 5:21 AM, Jari Oksanen wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 10:51 +0100, Simone Giannerini wrote: >> [snip] (this is from pd = Peter Dalgaard) >>> Maybe, but given the way things have been working lately, it might >>> be >>> better to emphasize >>> >>> (a) check the mailinglists >>> (b) try R-patched >>> (c) if in doubt, ask, rather than report as bug >>> >>> (Ideally, people would try the prerelease versions and problems like >>> this would be caught before the actual release, but it seems that >>> they >>> prefer treating x.y.0 as a beta release...) >>> >> >> I am sorry but I do not agree with point (b) for the very simple >> fact that the average Windows user do not know how to compile the >> source code and might not even want to learn how to do it. The >> point is that since (if I am correct) the great majority of R >> users go Windows you would miss an important part of potential bug >> reports by requiring point (b) whereas (a) and (c) would suffice >> IMHO. >> Maybe if there were Win binaries of the prerelease version >> available some time before the release you would get much more >> feedback but I am just guessing. > > First I must say that patched Windows binaries are available from > CRAN with one extra click -- Linux and poor MacOS users must use > 'svn co' to check out the patched version from the repository and > compile from the sources. The attribute "poor" for MacOS users was > there because this is a bigger step for Mac users than Linux users > (who can easily get and install all tools they need and tend to have > a different kind of mentality). >
Ehm, you didn't even bother to look at the CRAN page, right? Why am I bothering to build nightly builds of R-patched, and R-devel nightly and even garnishing them with a full installer so they can be installed just like the release version if people don't bother to read just a single web page ... [Insert the usual "please do your homework" part here that may be considered "vitriolic" ... (vitriol is a very useful substance by the way ...)] Cheers, Simon ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
