On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Herve Pages wrote:
Hi,
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Herve Pages wrote:
Hi,
This problem has already been reported here more than 1 year ago by
Brian J. Lopes:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2007-May/003863.html
[...]
Are there any chance that this could be addressed?
A chance, but not in code freeze for 2.8.0. (Your timing is the worse
possible.)
That's an unusual setup (developing on a system with sub-architectures).
Are you saying that developing on Tiger (or Leopard) is unusual?
Well, yes (and we know that because of the non-standard tarballs those
systems produce by default and which R CMD build now works around).
But my observation was based on the fact that everyone I know who develops
on Mac OS X (and almost everyone on Windows) builds R from the sources to
suit their own preferences (and since that will be for the one
architecture they are working on and sub-architectures are not the
default), such people don't have sub-architectures. It's not just Mac OS:
I have 32- and 64-bit versions on Linux and Solaris, but I keep them
separate for development (and e.g. RH/Fedora has gone a different route
for multi-architecture support that is tantamount to separate installs
with a common front-end script).
If you submit a tested patch it is more likely to be 'addressed' once
the R-2-8-branch is open again.
I think this is probably covered in changes now made in R-devel, but
please do check for us.
Thanks!
H.
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Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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