[R-pkg-devel] macos x86 oldrel backups?

[Simon Urbanek]

Jon,

The high-sierra build packages are currently not built due to hardware issues. The macOS version is so long out of support by Apple (over 6 years) that it is hard to maintain it. Only big-sur builds are supported at this point. Although it is possible that we may be able to restore the old builds, it is not guaranteed. (BTW the right mailing list for this is R-SIG-Mac).

Cheers,
Simon



> On 5/12/2023, at 09:52, Jonathan Keane <jkeane using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you to the CRAN maintainers for maintenance and keeping the all
> of the CRAN infrastructure running.
> 
> I'm seeing a long delay in builds on CRAN for r-oldrel-macos-x86_64.
> I'm currently interested in Arrow [1], but I'm seeing many other
> packages with similar missing r-oldrel-macos-x86_64 builds (possibly
> all, I sampled a few packages from [2], but didn't do an exhaustive
> search) for an extended period.
> 
> It appears that this started between 2023-10-21 and 2023-10-22. It
> looks like AMR [3] has a successful build but xlcutter does not [4]
> and all the packages I've checked after 2023-10-22 don't have an
> updated build for r-oldrel-macos-x86_64
> 
> Sorry if this is scheduled maintenance, I tried to find an
> announcement here and on r-project.org but haven't yet found anything
> indicating this.
> 
> [1] - https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_arrow.html
> [2] - https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by_date.html
> [3] - https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/AMR/index.html
> [4] - https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xlcutter/index.html
> 
> -Jon
> 
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