On 3/13/23 17:31, Daniel Possenriede wrote:
Hi, If I am not mistaken, all Rtools 4.2 (and 4.3) revisions have the same ARP [1] entries, i.e. all report version 4.2.0.1 (or 4.3.0.1). This makes it difficult to determine the installed version (is it possible to determine the installed revision?) and impossible for tools like winget [2] to update Rtools to the latest revision, AFAICT. Would it be possible to track the version in the installer [3] for future Rtools releases again, like it used to be in Rtools 4.0 [4]?
Well the thing is that once you install Rtools 42/43, you can then upgrade it internally (without Windows knowing). You can upgrade the Msys2 part, or the MXE part, or both. The MXE part (customized for Rtools) does have a single version number, which can be found in the installation. The Msys2 part doesn't, afaik.
See e.g. "Upgrading Rtools43" in https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/howto-R-devel.html for how to upgrade and how to find out the current version number of the MXE part.
So, right, I could e.g. add a non-decreasing unique version to the build of the installer (e.g. based on that from the SVN where it lives and the MXE part version originally included), but I doubt how useful that would be, given that a particular installation can be upgraded/modified by the user. It could actually be misleading.
Note Rtools40 also could be updated by the user internally. Tomas
Thanks! Daniel [1] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/blob/master/FAQ.md#what-is-an-arp-entry [2] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli [3] https://svn.r-project.org/R-dev-web/trunk/WindowsBuilds/winutf8/ucrt3/rtools/rtools64.iss [4] https://github.com/r-windows/rtools-installer/commit/7f23f0d0442d72922014ec4082c8bdd437364cef ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
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