Re: [Rd] Update on rtools4 and ucrt support

2021-08-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 23/08/2021 8:15 a.m., jan Vitek via R-devel wrote: 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 on

Re: [Rd] Update on rtools4 and ucrt support

2021-08-23 Thread jan Vitek via R-devel
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 mu

[Rd] Update on rtools4 and ucrt support

2021-08-20 Thread Jeroen Ooms
Hi all, I received some questions this week about rtools4 (the windows compiler bundle) in particular regarding support for ucrt, so below a brief summary of the status quo: As of May 2021, rtools4 has full support for ucrt. The toolchain configuration is based on the upstream msys2 configuration