> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:39:29AM -0400, Liaw, Andy wrote: > > Would it make sense to have platform specific packages in a separate area on > > CRAN? I don't know of anything other than Windows that understand COM. > > Yup, and 'core' CRAN contains at least one Windows-only package: rbugs [ as > I found when working on a script to automagically build Debian packages from > CPAN packages, the script is a modified version of Albrecht's script ] > > So apart from moving arch-specific packages into their own little corners [ > bad, balkanization ] we could extend the Description file and flag the > architecture restriction there.
That sounds reasonable to me. At the moment, there's just a configure script in rcom issuing an error on non-windows platforms. (thanks to kh for this.) Thomas ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
