Our build is currently a bit in flux since I was moving the CRAN machines back
to the university. Also for the betas I am notarising the builds which includes
a manual step (I don’t do that for the regular nightlies).
FWIW the time zone of the build machine is US/Eastern for historical reasons.
Simon is the one who has the full detail, but at this point, I get
R version 4.0.1 beta (2020-05-28 r78607) -- "See Things Now"
According to mac.r-project.org, this was built at 19:29 on May 28. It's not
really clear what time zone that is... The transition to beta was just after
midnight CET
I just installed the 4.0 patched binary, and noticed that it is still at 5/24
(i.e. pre Beta, although I'm guessing that's a minor distinction). 3.6 was
updated yesterday. Since I'm not too familiar with this process yet, what kind
of update schedule should I expect for these binaries?
Best,
Yes. Simon's policy is just to use the current x.y SVN branch (say
R-4.0-branch) which goes through the alpha-beta-RC-(release)-Patched cycle.
I.e. R-4.0-branch.pkg will _be_ the prerelease at the relevant stage of the
development cycle.
(Nerdy details: There is only x.y.0 alpha, otherwise we
