Hi, One final question ... is there an automated build system anyplace for package developers and R -developers to make sure their code works on all platforms. I was able to check with Linux, and MacOSX (both Intel and PPC) but I do not own a Windows box and was unable to test/debug the build in any way on that platform.
On my last project (OpenOffice.org), they used something called "tinderbox" to automate the build on all official platforms and post results (and build logs and errors/warnings) to a web site that any contributors could check to make sure anything they changed or wrote did not disrupt any thing else. The main OpenOffice.org developers made available "child workspaces" (typically subsets of the main development tree or even the whole tree) that volunteer developers could commit to that had to be validated via the "tinderbox" and a test harness before being merged back into the tree. That allowed the volunteers more freedom to make changes without ever hurting the tree. And it gave the core developers complete control of when and if, patches and changes from outside volunteers ever make it into the tree. Is there anything like that for R either internally or externally? Thanks, Kevin ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
