[R-pkg-devel] CRAN and CMake

[Tim Keitt]

http://www.keittlab.org/

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 09/06/2015 6:10 PM, Gregory Jefferis wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On 9 Jun 2015, at 22:08, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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:
> >
> > https://github.com/stnava/cmaker
> >
> > 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.
>

Their "classification matrix" says that cmake is not subject to EAR.

THK


>
> Duncan Murdoch
>

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