Hi Jeroen, I mostly lurk on this list, but I was struck by your combative tone.
To pick on two random bits: > … a 6gb tarball with manually built things on his personal machine… > … a black-box system that is so opaque and complex that only one person > knows how it works, and would make it much more difficult for > students, universities, and other organisations to build R packages > and libraries on Windows… Tomas’ tool chain isn't a blackbox, it has copious documentation (see [1]) and builds on any machine thanks to the provided docker container. This is not to criticise your work which has its unique strengths, but to state the obvious: these strengths are best discussed without passion based on factually accurate descriptions. [1] https://developer.r-project.org/Blog/public/2021/03/12/windows/utf-8-toolchain-and-cran-package-checks/index.html -jan Jan Vitek, Professor Northeastern University ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
