Hi all, I will preface this with the fact that I don't do work on windows and the following is based on remembered conversations/talks/etc from a while ago so may be either incorrect or out of date, but I recall one of the major things Jeroen was targeting was use of/integration with a meaningful package manager for external library dependencies in windows from-source package builds, and that *I think* this was a part of his (then explicitly experimental) Rtools4 setup (?)
Is the above correct, and if so, is there also package manager integration/usage in Tomas' official R-core UCRT toolchain? If not, could it be (perhaps, as Duncan suggested, via collaborative effort involving Jeroen as well)? I admit, both windows toolchains/builds and non-latin encodings are things I have so far stayed away from, so I can't really contribute beyond that, other than to say, as others have, that I do think both are impressive pieces of work and that both Jeroen and Tomas should have our thanks thanks for this and a lot of other work they put into R and the R community. Best, ~G On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 4:02 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > As I type this, we are eight messages into this thread -- but I am not sure > it has been made clear what the actual contentious issues are. > > There appear to be two toolchains, and they appear to be interoperate > (though > Duncan stated he had issues with an (arguably demanding) package). Now, I > have the opposite (hence positive) experience. For one package I look > after, > a colleague took care of the (complicated in that case) 'needed to build > the > package' pre-requirements by ensuring we have a UCRT variant. Jeroen then > (unprompted) supplied a two-line/two-file PR to enable a Windows UCRT build > (piggy-backing on the existing Windows build), and with that the 'ERROR' I > had at CRAN reports under Tomas UCRT entry is gone. Net-net, this looks > like > a working setup to me which combines both toolchains without issues. > > And I was able to repeat this with a few more packages of mine for which > Jeroen's winlibs factory has libraries---these now build to under Tomas's > builder at CRAN. So maybe this is not an either-or discussion? So if > there > are issues, could we be told what they are, and could we possibly help > Jeroen > and Tomas to iron them out? > > Dirk > > -- > https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
