On Feb 22, 2011, at 5:51 PM, <ken.willi...@thomsonreuters.com> <ken.willi...@thomsonreuters.com> wrote:
> > > On 2/22/11 4:33 PM, "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: > >> >> On Feb 22, 2011, at 5:29 PM, <ken.willi...@thomsonreuters.com> >> <ken.willi...@thomsonreuters.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2/22/11 4:25 PM, "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: >>> >>>> On Feb 22, 2011, at 5:12 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Anyway---I will point our OS X user to source installs. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Well, I don't think that helps in any way - the test will still fail >>>> for >>>> all 10.5 users. Why don't you just fix the test? It's up to you, but >>>> removing Rcpp from CRAN won't help anyone (well, almost ;)). >>> >>> >>> Actually it helps a great deal, it means that 10.6 users can install >>> something. >>> >> >> Can you explain? You can always install from sources (provided you have >> all the tools etc.) - regardless whether there is a binary or not... > > That's true - but for most OS X users, myself included until just a couple > hours ago, it looks like (when using the R.app GUI install tools) the > oldest successfully-built binary is the "latest available version", unless > someone like Dirk points us to the source install and says it should work > fine. So it certainly helped me because I didn't know what I was missing. > Ok, I'll take it down, but note that this will have a snowball effect since it implies that all depending packages will fail as well. I can change the policy such that check failures result in the removal of the old binary - from what you said it may be useful since the users will be more likely to bug the maintainers for a fix. The drawback is that in the meantime there is no binary. Personally, either is fine with me. >>> >>> What's this about removing Rcpp from CRAN though? Just a joke I assume? >>> >> >> No, why? > > Because it's a useful package, of course. And CRAN is where someone > should go to find useful R packages. > Well, if that was true, CRAN would have a much fewer packages ;). Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
