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

[Uwe Ligges]

On 06.12.2021 03:09, Avraham Adler wrote:
> 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)?

It depends on the hardware, not the OS.
CRAN checked on Intel CPUs, which are little endian while formerly 
Solaris was typically used on Sparc which is big endian.

In any case, please try to write cross platform code further on. ARM and 
x86-64 may agree, but we do not know what comes next. And old ideas may 
be revived more quickly than expected:
Not too many people expected 20 years ago that the future of scientific 
computing in 2021 would still/again happen on platforms without support 
for long doubles / extended precision.

Best,
Uwe Ligges


> 
> 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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