I sometimes wonder how difficult it would be to set up an email system, like the netlib@netlib.bell-labs.com facility for f2c, but for producing binary versions of packages. Has anyone every thought about this? I guess the main use would be for Windows, about which I know almost nothing, so I won't volunteer myself. Paul Gilbert -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Paul Gilbert wrote:> > I sometimes wonder how difficult it would be to set up an email system, like the > netlib@netlib.bell-labs.com facility for f2c, but for producing binary versions of > packages. Has anyone every thought about this? I guess the main use would be for > Windows, about which I know almost nothing, so I won't volunteer myself.If it all worked without a hitch, yes. Many do not: for example several need to be configured manually (without instructions, either) as their configure scripts do not work under Windows (or use Unix-specific paths). The real problems are packages that fail make pkgcheck-foo, e.g. because they have par(ask=T) and Windows is using smaller buffers. And then there are those which use data directories in unintended ways so they cannot be zipped .... Also, some of building has to be done under Windows, so one would need a Windows server running. There are ideas to ease this. Peter D and I have talking about cross-compiling and using Wine or Win4lin. A couple of people are exploring volunteering to help with or automate Windows builds. When shortly I actually have my own suitable box (a dual PIII Linux box) on the Internet, I will explore too. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Paul Gilbert wrote:> > I sometimes wonder how difficult it would be to set up an email system, like the > netlib@netlib.bell-labs.com facility for f2c, but for producing binary versions of > packages. Has anyone every thought about this? I guess the main use would be for > Windows, about which I know almost nothing, so I won't volunteer myself. >There are security issues, since a configure script can do anything, as can R CMD check. Also, I believe quite a few packages require hand-configuring of some sort under Windows (another reason for the increasing workload). It might be possible, though. -thomas -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Hi I wonder if I could contribute in some way as grateful user of R and as a Windows NT user. It could also be useful to know that I have a high speed link to the Internet. I would gladly give up CPU time to build binary packages for Windows if this can help others. I understand that some package(s) might not build out of the box as some of you have pointed out but I have no doubt a solution can be found. Thanks for your time and effort. Yves Gauvreau ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Gilbert" <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca> To: "R-devel" <R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:33 AM Subject: [Rd] pac2bin> > I sometimes wonder how difficult it would be to set up an email system,like the> netlib@netlib.bell-labs.com facility for f2c, but for producing binaryversions of> packages. Has anyone every thought about this? I guess the main use wouldbe for> Windows, about which I know almost nothing, so I won't volunteer myself. > > Paul Gilbert > > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-> r-devel mailing list -- Readhttp://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html> Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" > (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch >_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _._ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._