[ESS-bugs] ESS 13.09-1 with old R versions fails pretty badly

[Rodney Sparapani]

On 10/30/2013 03:57 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
>> This will not work for those who don't build.
> That's no problem.
> All of us (ESS core) can build.
> People working from svn or git*must*  build ... that's been true
> in the past too, as we build quite a few doc things as well,
> that are not in svn (but in the release) for good reason.
>
> For release, the release master
> *must*  build anyway, so the release tarball will be fine always.
>
>> >It will also not work with
>> >MELPA. I will fix that by parsing the ESSR/DESCRIPTION directly.
> Do we really care for MELPA for *UN*released versions of ESS ??
> I definitely don't want to.
> Remember we have releases (and may have prereleases if desired),
> and that's what 99.95% of the users should start from.
> The others (even if they are more than 0.05% must build, yes,
> that's true for all free software I've known.
>
SNIP SNIP SNIP

Hi Gang:

I'm going to chime in on building (who can stop me, right ;o)  But,
I can't comment on the best way to deliver ESSR:  I'll leave that to
the rest of you, but I will test as always...

Anyways, I agree that we should assume, perhaps require, that make was
run as we always have prior to github, MELPA, yum/apt-get, etc.  That
would restore some uniformity and sanity which I was pleading for
madly yesterday.  If we can't assume that, then it's anarchy.

-- 
Rodney Sparapani, PhD
Manager of Statistical & Computational Operations
Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research (PCOR)
Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), Milwaukee, USA
http://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneysparapani