On 6 December 2012 at 16:12, Martin Maechler wrote:
| >>>>> elijah wright <e...@stderr.org>
| >>>>> on Wed, 5 Dec 2012 14:23:51 -0600 writes:
|
| > Is that a build with "good old" Studio or a build with a recent GCC?
| > I don't have any direct comments that would be helpful to you - but let
me
| > know if you need a place to do some test builds and try to figure it
out.
| > I can certainly help you with that.
|
| > [Are more Solaris-esque build slaves needed? Someone give a shout if
so...
| > we can sponsor some infrastructure there.]
|
| `` shout! ''
:)
| as long we (R community at large "in principle", de facto,
| AFAIK, Prof Brian Ripley)
| can have a Solaris testbed for CRAN which is reflected in the
| CRAN package check, it would be really great if someone provided
| a "Solaris-builder" server similar to the
| win-builder.r-project.org one that Uwe (and his Depaertment/
| University) provides.
In a world with finite resources in terms of coding time and attention span,
should we not provide such resources first for OS X and Linux? But maybe we
need some empirics first so that we can rank-order compilers by relevance.
I for one get more error emails from Intel icc users (say, two a year) than
from Solaris users (probably about one or two, over all these years; and yes
I excluded the CRAN maintainers here).
That said, we do have a concrete offer for help from Elijah which should a)
be commended ("nice job!") and used but b) we should maybe try to think about
what other resources would help.
Dirk
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Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
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