John, On Nov 21, 2011, at 8:17 AM, John C Nash wrote:
> I think the poster is interested in being able to try the build/check on a > Mac in the > fashion that Winbuilder does. That is, rather than have CRAN do all the > platform checks, > is there a way to submit a package to be tested for just one platform? > > It may be useful to have such a facility so package builders can test before > submission, > and from my own experience I believe would help to render packages more > platform neutral. > It has been discussed and there was a tentative plan (which involves getting a dedicated machine for this and R-forge builds), but nothing happened so far. > I suspect that all the pieces are in place to do this, but perhaps a nice > front end is > needed. Is that something for a Google Summer of Code task? > Software infrastructure is not a problem. For example I have full multi-platform submission system in place for my RForge.net (since I'm building Linux, OS X and Windows). Personally, my view is that developers should be using the existing package-based build systems (like R-forge or RForge.net). I am paranoid and thus reluctant to perform builds on my own systems for packages that have no source provenance (i.e. if I don't have an accountable registered user) - for security reasons. Cheers, Simon > Best, > > JN > > On 11/21/2011 06:00 AM, r-devel-requ...@r-project.org wrote: >> What does 'submit a test mean'? Any test you write can check the >> value of Sys.info()["sysname"]: it is "Darwin" on Mac OS X. >> Or R.version$platform, which will be something like >> i386-apple-darwin9.8.0. > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
