[Bioc-devel] Package not being built on Windows or Mac

[Robert M. Flight]

Thank you all for the explanations, and the assurance that Windows and Mac
users should still be able to install it.

Robert

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017, 2:56 AM Hervé Pagès <hpages at fredhutch.org> wrote:

> On 03/20/2017 02:31 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
> > As I recall, there were issues building RCytoscape (and packages that
> depend on it) on Mac and Windows. Mostly because this requires a running
> instance of Cytoscape for each platform (and double that for release +
> devel). That used too much infrastructure so we disabled building on those
> platforms. However, since RCytoscape contains no native (C/C++/Fortran)
> code, it will still be available on all platforms and should install just
> fine.
> >
> > As long as the same is true of categoryCompare then Mac/Windows users
> should be able to use it.
>
> Exactly. Thanks Dan & Jim!
>
> FWIW, supported platforms are controlled via the .BBSoptions file.
> I added this file in August last year:
>
>    hpages at latitude:~/svn/bioconductor/Rpacks/categoryCompare$ svn log -v
> -r120632
>    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    r120632 | hpages at fhcrc.org | 2016-08-31 17:13:55 -0700 (Wed, 31 Aug
> 2016) | 1 line
>    Changed paths:
>       A /trunk/madman/Rpacks/categoryCompare/.BBSoptions
>
>    mark as unsupported on non-linux like RCytoscape which
> categoryCompare depends on
>    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Cheers,
> H.
>
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "James W. MacDonald" <jmacdon at uw.edu>
> >> To: "Robert M. Flight" <rflight79 at gmail.com>
> >> Cc: "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel at r-project.org>
> >> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2017 2:22:36 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Package not being built on Windows or Mac
> >
> >> It's probably because you depend on RCytoscape, which isn't supported on
> >> Windows or MacOS. And maybe this has something to do with XMLRPC?
> >>
> >> Jim
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Robert M. Flight <rflight79 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> As per the exhortation to check the build status on Devel prior to next
> >>> version of Bioconductor release, I just noticed that my package
> >>> categoryCompare has a "not supported" on Windows and Mac.
> >>>
> >>> Looking at release history, this seems to  I have changed at Bioc v
> 3.4,
> >>> and I'm curious why that would be the case.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Robert
> >>>
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