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

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- 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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