[R-pkg-devel] CRAN and CMake

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 09/06/2015 6:10 PM, Gregory Jefferis wrote:
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>> On 9 Jun 2015, at 22:08, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Thanks! I just looked at it, but it seems that it actually requires an
>> external system cmake. I am trying to put cmake itself into a package.
> 
> This one: 
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> https://github.com/stnava/cmaker
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> I remember now there is another cmaker!
> 

The DESCRIPTION file says this:

OS_type: unix
SystemRequirements: clang (recommended)

One of the CRAN policies is "Package authors should make all reasonable
efforts to provide cross-platform portable code."  cmake describes
itself as a cross-platform solution and offers Windows binaries, so does
it really make sense to limit it to Unix?

Also of concern are the export restrictions on this page:

http://www.cmake.org/download/

I suspect CRAN isn't going to want to be involved with those.

Duncan Murdoch