R devel - Oct 2006 - Status of R 2.4.0 in svn repository and R-Admin manual

Dear list,

I have been using and testing the alpha/betas of R 2.4.0, sources for
which I got from svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-2-4-branch, and which I
compiled on my Fedora Core 5 machine. No problems there. I have just
updated the source tree today and re-compiled - which also works just
fine. When run, this gives:

R version 2.4.0 Patched (2006-10-03 r39576)

So I assume from that, that I am using the latest version of the R 2.4
branch?

This is a little at odds with the R-Admin manual, which in section 1.2.1
states that you get R-patched from
https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-x-y-patches/ . But there is no
R-2-4-patches/ on svn.r-project.org/R/branches/. Is the documentation in
this manual incorrect for R >= 2.4.0, and will
svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-2-4-branch continue to be R 2.4.0
patched? Or will a R-x-y-branches branch be created for this release?

Thanks in advance,

G

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Gavin Simpson <gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> Dear list,
> 
> I have been using and testing the alpha/betas of R 2.4.0, sources for
> which I got from svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-2-4-branch, and which I
> compiled on my Fedora Core 5 machine. No problems there. I have just
> updated the source tree today and re-compiled - which also works just
> fine. When run, this gives:
> 
> R version 2.4.0 Patched (2006-10-03 r39576)
> 
> So I assume from that, that I am using the latest version of the R 2.4
> branch?
> 
> This is a little at odds with the R-Admin manual, which in section 1.2.1
> states that you get R-patched from
> https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-x-y-patches/ . But there is no
> R-2-4-patches/ on svn.r-project.org/R/branches/. Is the documentation in
> this manual incorrect for R >= 2.4.0, and will
> svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-2-4-branch continue to be R 2.4.0
> patched? Or will a R-x-y-branches branch be created for this release?
This is just an oversight.

Thing is that we decided to create the branch already at
"Grand-Feature Freeze", which simplifies the release phase procedures
quite a bit and reduces the risk of last-minute surprises. It also
opens up the "trunk" for new development a bit earlier. So 2.4.x
alpha/beta/RC/<final>/Patched releases are now all cut from the same
branch. A side effect was that the branch name "x-y-patches" would be
a misnomer, so it got changed.


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On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 15:03 +0200, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Gavin Simpson <gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > Dear list,
> > 
> > I have been using and testing the alpha/betas of R 2.4.0, sources for
> > which I got from svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-2-4-branch, and which
I
> > compiled on my Fedora Core 5 machine. No problems there. I have just
> > updated the source tree today and re-compiled - which also works just
> > fine. When run, this gives:
> > 
> > R version 2.4.0 Patched (2006-10-03 r39576)
> > 
> > So I assume from that, that I am using the latest version of the R 2.4
> > branch?
> > 
> > This is a little at odds with the R-Admin manual, which in section
1.2.1
> > states that you get R-patched from
> > https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-x-y-patches/ . But there is no
> > R-2-4-patches/ on svn.r-project.org/R/branches/. Is the documentation
in
> > this manual incorrect for R >= 2.4.0, and will
> > svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-2-4-branch continue to be R 2.4.0
> > patched? Or will a R-x-y-branches branch be created for this release?
> 
> This is just an oversight.
> 
> Thing is that we decided to create the branch already at
> "Grand-Feature Freeze", which simplifies the release phase
procedures
> quite a bit and reduces the risk of last-minute surprises. It also
> opens up the "trunk" for new development a bit earlier. So 2.4.x
> alpha/beta/RC/<final>/Patched releases are now all cut from the same
> branch. A side effect was that the branch name "x-y-patches"
would be
> a misnomer, so it got changed.
Hi Peter,

Thanks for clearing that up for me. If this is the way things are going
to be done in future, here is a patch to the R-admin.texi sources (also
attached)

All the best,

G

## Patch to R-admin.texi - I hope I did this right, first time and all?

Index: doc/manual/R-admin.texi
==================================================================---
doc/manual/R-admin.texi     (revision 39576)
+++ doc/manual/R-admin.texi     (working copy)
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@
 @url{http://subversion.tigris.org/, @code{subversion.tigris.org}}), you
 can check out and update the current r-devel from
 @url{https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/} and the current r-patched from
- at samp{https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R- at var{x}- at var{y}-patches/}
+ at samp{https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R- at var{x}- at var{y}-branch/}
 (where @var{x} and @var{y} are the major and minor number of the current
 released version of R).  E.g., use

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