[Rd] declaring package dependencies

[Göran Broström]

On 09/16/2013 12:38 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 13-09-16 3:59 AM, Göran Broström wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 09/15/2013 11:09 AM, Matthew Dowle wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm a little surprised by this thread.
>>>
>>> I subscribe to the RSS feeds of changes to NEWS (as Dirk mentioned) and
>>> that's been pretty informative in the past :
>>> http://developer.r-project.org/RSSfeeds.html
>>>
>>> Mainly though, I submit to winbuilder before submitting to CRAN, as the
>>> CRAN policies advise.
>>
>> Right, but
>>
>> "Please _do not_ upload BioConductor packages or CRAN packages."
>>
>> from the winbuilder page.
>
>   From the context, that message is about packages that are already on
> CRAN without Windows binaries already built.

Maybe, but that is not what the page says.

Anyway, may I use this facility to check new versions of my CRAN 
packages or not?

Göran

> Duncan Murdoch
>
>>
>> Göran
>>
>>> winbuilder's R-devel seems to be built daily,
>>> saving me the time. Since I don't have Windows it kills two birds with
>>> one stone.  It has caught many problems for me before submitting to CRAN
>>> and I can't remember it ever not responding in a reasonable time.
>>> http://win-builder.r-project.org/upload.aspx
>>>
>>> I've suggested before that winbuilder could be the mechanism to submit
>>> to CRAN rather than an ftp upload to incoming.  Only if winbuilder
>>> passed OK on R-devel could it then go to a human.   But iirc there was a
>>> technical difficulty preventing this.
>>>
>>> Matthew
>>>
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