Cross-building is one of those things that complicates the Windows R build
process considerably and probably benefits a handful of people.
It has been pointed out that now we have build services such as Uwe's
win-builder and RForge, there are easy ways to get a (checked) Windows
binary of a finished R package, and it is nowadays more common to have
things like a Windows Terminal Server to provide remote desktop access
to a Windows mahine, or virtual machines running Windows as a guest
OS.
If the need is only to cross-build packages, it would probably be
easier to do so within the Unix package install system, effectively as
another sub-architecture.
So this posting is an opportunity for users to make a _case_
(including offering resources) for continued support for
cross-building either of R itself or of packages. Either on this list
or to r-wind...@r-project.org (which goes only to the Windows'
developers).
(Cross-building is currently broken in the development version of R.)
--
Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
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