[R-pkg-devel] [FORGED] Re: win-builder down?

[Rolf Turner]

On 1/03/20 11:44 am, Max Kuhn wrote:

> On February 29, 2020 at 5:06:35 PM, Rolf Turner (r.turner using auckland.ac.nz 
> <mailto:r.turner using auckland.ac.nz>) wrote:
>>
>> On 1/03/20 2:23 am, Hadley Wickham wrote:
>>
>> > Is it down again? I'm seeing the same problem again.
>> > Hadley
>> >
>> > On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 2:41 PM Hadley Wickham <h.wickham using gmail.com <mailto:h.wickham using gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> Is win-builder down? I submitted a couple of packages >24 hours ago,
>> >> and haven't heard back.
>> >>
>> >> Hadley
>>
>> Me too. Submitted a package about 18 hours ago, and so far not a
>> sausage. Although it's churlish to complain, one gets used to a service
>> that has been provided and gets annoyed when the service disappears.
> 
> True, but it would be unnecessary if `R CMD check —as-cran` did exactly 
> the same thing as win-builder (as well as the extra, informal checks 
> done on a first submission).

Not entirely true.  The package that I am currently trying to get built 
is for use by some consulting clients and is not (yet) for public 
release.  So I can't/don't submit it to CRAN so as to get a Windoze 
binary that way.

cheers,

Rolf

P.S. I note that the winbuilder web site says:

>  Please do not upload Bioconductor packages or CRAN packages.
>  Both Bioconductor and CRAN do have build systems ....

I presume that this exhortation is of some antiquity and is "no longer 
operative".

R.

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