On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Precisely. Let's have one source repo but _let us label any and all binary > restrictions_ more clearly so that I for one can skip over stuff that may > build for you [ Windoze ] but won't for me [ Linux, preferable on all all > ten to twelve hardware platforms supported by Debian for packages that get > uploaded ].
While there's no automated checking of the field, there is the SystemRequirements field in the DESCRIPTION file which is intended for dependencies which are not R packages. I have only seen it used for external libraries and the like but this would seem to be a place where one could specify any particular platform requirements as well. -J ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
