[Bioc-devel] R-devel update schedule/strategy for Bioc devel build machines

[Gabe Becker]

Dan,

Thanks for the quick and thorough response. This info will be instrumental
as we try to mach your build systems locally.

~G

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
wrote:

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
> > To: "Gabe Becker" <becker.gabe at gene.com>
> > Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org, "Jim Fitzgerald" <
> fitzgerald.james at gene.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:23:58 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] R-devel update schedule/strategy for Bioc
> devel build       machines
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Gabe Becker" <becker.gabe at gene.com>
> > > To: bioc-devel at r-project.org, "Jim Fitzgerald"
> > > <fitzgerald.james at gene.com>
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:21:17 AM
> > > Subject: [Bioc-devel] R-devel update schedule/strategy for Bioc
> > > devel build machines
> > >
> > > Bioc admins,
> > >
> > > We have an automatic build/test mechanism for our internal packages
> > > which
> > > we'd like to match the Bioc build machines as closely as possible.
> > > AFAIU,
> > > the exact commit-specific version of R-devel used on your devel
> > > build
> > > server changes occasionally within Bioc releases, and we'd like to
> > > mirror
> > > those changes on our system.
> > >
> > > Is there a set schedule for when the exact commit of R-devel on
> > > your
> > > build
> > > server changes?
> >
> > No. We do it in response to the following events:
> >
> > - significant changes in the R code
> > - "seems like a while since we last updated R"
> > - milestones leading up to release (release candidates, alpha, beta,
> > etc).
> >
> > You could scrape the build report daily to see if the version of R
> > has changed.
> >
> >  Also, do you guys grab them as tarballs, or
> > > checkout/update
> > > from the svn?
> >
> > Tarballs.
>
> BTW, I don't know if you are concerned about platforms other than Linux,
> but for Mac and Windows we install the binaries provided by CRAN, we don't
> build R from source on these platforms any more.
>
> Dan
>
>
> > Dan
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > ~G
> > >
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