[R-pkg-devel] MSRV on Fedora

[Hiroaki Yutani]

> As such, I cannot manage the MSRV of the package's dependencies.

It seems the reason for geographiclib-rs's MSRV is just that it uses
std::sync::OnceLock. Maybe a possible workaround is to fork the repo and
replace it with the once_cell crate? You should be able to override the
dependency by [patch.crates-io] section.

Best,
Yutani

2024年7月24日(水) 1:20 Josiah Parry <josiah.parry using gmail.com>:

> Hi all!
>
> I have 2 errors related to minimum supported rust version (MSRV) on fedora
>
> https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang/rsgeo-00install.html
> that I do not know how to resolve.
>
> The package {rsgeo} has a dependency on the rust crate geo which itself has
> a dependency on geographiclib-rs which has an MSRV of 1.70 whereas the CRAN
> fedora machines are 1.69.
>
> As such, I cannot manage the MSRV of the package's dependencies.
>
> As an alternative, can I indicate in my DESCRIPTION that the package is not
> supported on Fedora so that CRAN machines do not attempt to build it? I
> would be a-okay saying if you're using fedora you have to build from
> source.
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