Hervé,

> On 1/04/2020, at 6:19 PM, Hervé Pagès <hpa...@fredhutch.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Simon. A couple of days ago we've started to use the R 4.0.0 alpha 
> build from https://mac.r-project.org/ for the Bioconductor build system. 
> Bioconductor packages depend on thousands of CRAN packages and one thing that 
> makes it hard for us and for our users to build/check Bioconductor packages 
> at the moment is the absence of Mac binary packages for R 4.0.0 on CRAN. Do 
> you have an estimate of when they will become available?
> 

Both the packages and R are now available. I always recommend using the 
Mac-master https://mac.R-project.org as "mirror" since that one is most 
up-to-date.


> Another question is where they are going to be hosted on CRAN. We need to 
> follow CRAN's layout for Bioconductor package repositories.
> 


We have removed the extra layer, the package type is back to "mac.binary", so 
bin/macosx/contrib is the location.

Cheers,
Simon



> Thanks!
> H.
> 
> 
> On 3/31/20 21:27, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>> Dear Mac users,
>> R 4.0.0 will be using an entirely new toolchain, entirely new build system 
>> on entirely new macOS version and hardware. Therefore I would like to ask 
>> you kindly to test the binaries from
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mac.R-2Dproject.org&d=DwIFAg&c=eRAMFD45gAfqt84VtBcfhQ&r=BK7q3XeAvimeWdGbWY_wJYbW0WYiZvSXAJJKaaPhzWA&m=-PNBcsZhHb1MLy6fZakmLP6WDLMwL-VigJVzeFtPxOI&s=FJYxweW9WiMXbNMPpMM0bHXy020Gx9P-dHMrWmt7YzE&e=
>> before the release as much as you can. Raising any issues after the release 
>> is too late! So please, please, test the pre-releases. Report any issues 
>> either directly to me or this mailing list.
>> The nightly builds are signed, but not necessarily notarized. However, the 
>> build fulfils Apple's conditions and is known to pass notarization (in fact 
>> the the package available for download today is actually notarized) so it 
>> should be a good test for the release which will be notarized and should 
>> work on Catalina.
>> For those that want to replicate our setup - technical details: we are now 
>> building with macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) as target (i.e. the oldest supported 
>> system), regular Apple Xcode/command line tools and GNU Fortran 8.2. R 
>> builds are running on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) with Xcode 11.4 using macOS 
>> 10.13 target. Packages are built on macOS 10.13 VMs with just Apple command 
>> line tools (this should make it easy to replicate the setup using Travis, 
>> for example). All 3rd party libraries that CRAN uses are available in 
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mac.r-2Dproject.org_libs-2D4_&d=DwIFAg&c=eRAMFD45gAfqt84VtBcfhQ&r=BK7q3XeAvimeWdGbWY_wJYbW0WYiZvSXAJJKaaPhzWA&m=-PNBcsZhHb1MLy6fZakmLP6WDLMwL-VigJVzeFtPxOI&s=3ZbcXBticg_8MfXltGKdQ9SFNqqeLqqwK_pUhEet7QY&e=
>> The new R build system is in
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__svn.r-2Dproject.org_R-2Ddev-2Dweb_trunk_QA_Simon_R4&d=DwIFAg&c=eRAMFD45gAfqt84VtBcfhQ&r=BK7q3XeAvimeWdGbWY_wJYbW0WYiZvSXAJJKaaPhzWA&m=-PNBcsZhHb1MLy6fZakmLP6WDLMwL-VigJVzeFtPxOI&s=Mmt7_pVM5aUDR3hz93-e-PtadG7wSYpaZe8Ayi5Pv4I&e=
>> Packages build system has not changed and is in
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__svn.r-2Dproject.org_R-2Ddev-2Dweb_trunk_QA_Simon_packages&d=DwIFAg&c=eRAMFD45gAfqt84VtBcfhQ&r=BK7q3XeAvimeWdGbWY_wJYbW0WYiZvSXAJJKaaPhzWA&m=-PNBcsZhHb1MLy6fZakmLP6WDLMwL-VigJVzeFtPxOI&s=eId6n08LVeIAMhMXe3jvLFKn9QGi4_by8owFreDDc84&e=
>> We also plan to have a mac-builder available with similar function as the 
>> win-builder where pre-submission tests can be performed and potentially a 
>> Travis template.
>> Please test R pre-releases and provide feedback!
>> Thanks,
>> Simon
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