[Rd] Status of R 2.4.0 in svn repository and R-Admin manual

[Peter Dalgaard]

Gavin Simpson <gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Dear list,
> 
> I have been using and testing the alpha/betas of R 2.4.0, sources for
> which I got from svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-2-4-branch, and which I
> compiled on my Fedora Core 5 machine. No problems there. I have just
> updated the source tree today and re-compiled - which also works just
> fine. When run, this gives:
> 
> R version 2.4.0 Patched (2006-10-03 r39576)
> 
> So I assume from that, that I am using the latest version of the R 2.4
> branch?
> 
> This is a little at odds with the R-Admin manual, which in section 1.2.1
> states that you get R-patched from
> https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-x-y-patches/ . But there is no
> R-2-4-patches/ on svn.r-project.org/R/branches/. Is the documentation in
> this manual incorrect for R >= 2.4.0, and will
> svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-2-4-branch continue to be R 2.4.0
> patched? Or will a R-x-y-branches branch be created for this release?

This is just an oversight.

Thing is that we decided to create the branch already at
"Grand-Feature Freeze", which simplifies the release phase procedures
quite a bit and reduces the risk of last-minute surprises. It also
opens up the "trunk" for new development a bit earlier. So 2.4.x
alpha/beta/RC/<final>/Patched releases are now all cut from the same
branch. A side effect was that the branch name "x-y-patches" would be
a misnomer, so it got changed.


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