On Sat, 16 May 2009, Martin Maechler wrote:
"UweL" == Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
on Fri, 15 May 2009 20:48:03 +0200 writes:
[.............]
>> Thank you for clarifying this and once again apologies for stirring you
>> up with something that had been fixed in the mean-time already.
UweL> For R-devel, it is in the svn logs. Since it may change again, NEWS is
UweL> not always edited while things are tested.
well, and if a new feature is introduced, it gets a NEWS entry
(hopefully), but if the new feature contains bugs, these will be
fixed of course with*OUT* another NEWS entry.
Indeed, the NEWS apply to (eventually) released versions of R,
so fixing transient bugs is *never* documented in NEWS.
... leading us back to what Brian already said:
>> 'Under development' needs to be taken seriously.
This was a Windows-only issue, so the final version was reported in
the May 1 entry in src/gnuwin32/CHANGES, not NEWS:
o Rcmd INSTALL --build in 2.9.0 did not make _bundles_ in the
format install.packages() expected.
[When I looked that was missing from the RSS feed for R-devel, so
perhaps another message is to look at the NEWS/CHANGES files
directly.]
As far as I can see from the svn logs, the first attempt at a fix was
on April 25 and that was changed to the more successful current
solution on April 27 (well over two weeks ago, _pace_ claims earlier
in the thread).
--
Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
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