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

[J C Nash]

I'd second Uwe's point. I was one of 31 signatories to first IEEE 754 (I didn't participate in
the two more recent releases, as I already tore my hair out with the details of low level
bit manipulations). Before the standard, porting code was truly a nightmare. We did it
because we had to and were too ignorant to realize what a fools task it was. Keep code
portable please.

JN

On 2021-12-06 6:07 a.m., Uwe Ligges wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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