I have just added R-4-4-branch to the feeds. I think I've also fixed
the \I issue, so today's news includes a long list of old changes.
Duncan Murdoch
On 16/03/2024 8:47 a.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote:> I have now put the files online at https://github.com/dmurdoch/diffnews
> . It seemed like too much trouble to include the SVN history, so this
> is just a copy of the current version of the files.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
> On 15/03/2024 12:04 p.m., Llu?s Revilla wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Thanks for this service! It is very helpful to know what is being
developed.
>>
>> I distribute the content to other venues and I noticed some times that
the
>> updates are duplicated.
>> For example, the sentence "?is.R()? is deprecated as no other S
dialect is
>> known to be in use (and this could only identify historical dialects,
not
>> future ones)." is duplicated in different days:
>> Day 1:
>>
https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2024/03/07#n2024-03-07
>> Day 2:
>>
https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2024/03/09#n2024-03-09
>>
>> I tried to look up how to avoid duplications with Blosxom
>> <http://blosxom.sourceforge.net/> but I didn't find a way.
>> It would be great if this could be further improved to avoid this
>> duplication.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Llu?s
>>
>> On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 at 13:50, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at
debian.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Years ago Duncan set up a nightly job to feed RSS based off changes
to
>>> NEWS,
>>> borrowing some setup parts from CRANberries as for example the RSS
>>> 'compiler'.
>>>
>>> That job is currently showing the new \I{...} curly protection in
an
>>> unfavourable light. Copying from the RSS reader I had pointed at
this since
>>> the start [1], for today I see (indented by four spaces)
>>>
>>> CHANGES IN R-devel INSTALLATION on WINDOWS
>>>
>>> The makefiles and installer scripts for Windows have been
tailored to
>>> \IRtools44, an update of the \IRtools43 toolchain. It is
based on GCC
>>> 13
>>> and newer versions of \IMinGW-W64, \Ibinutils and libraries
(targeting
>>> 64-bit Intel CPUs). R-devel can no longer be built using
\IRtools43
>>> without changes.
>>>
>>> \IRtools44 has experimental suport for 64-bit ARM (aarch64)
CPUs via
>>> LLVM
>>> 17 toolchain using lld, clang/flang-new and libc++.
>>>
>>> Can some kind soul put a filter over it to remove the \I ?
>>>
>>> Thanks, Dirk
>>>
>>> [1] Feedly. Unless we set this up so early that I once used Google
>>> Reader. It's been a while...
>>>
>>> --
>>> dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
>>>
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