[R-pkg-devel] CRAN no longer checking for solaris?

[Avraham Adler]

Would this mean we could start using little endian bit strings, as I think
only the Solaris platform was big endian (or was it the other way around)?

Avi

On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 8:56 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org> wrote:

>
> On 5 December 2021 at 17:23, Travers Ching wrote:
> | I see that there doesn't exist a Solaris flavor on any CRAN check page.
> | However, I'm certain that Solaris was being checked up until very
> recently.
> |
> | Is this just temporary?
> |
> | Is there any information for the future of Solaris on CRAN?
>
> No "official" word yet on this list, r-devel or elsewhere, or via commits
> to
> the CRAN Policy (which a cron job of mine monitors).
>
> But Henrik was eagle-eyed and spotted a number of changes to the svn (or
> git
> mirror thereof) writing Solaris out of the official documentation:
>
>   https://twitter.com/henrikbengtsson/status/1466877096471379970
>
> So yes it seems like an era is coming to a close.
>
> Dirk
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