[R-SIG-Mac]current development status (carbon R)

[Stefano]

This is a msg to inform you about the state of the art of R porting for 
the Macintosh.

I'm grateful to all the people who are sending me feedback. This will 
not be lost and I hope to fix most of the problems in version 1.4.0 of R.

What to expect for version 1.3.1 of R (mid august probably):
This will be mostly a techincal update (in the mac side)

My actual work now it to abandon the CodeWarrior compile in favour of 
Apple's MPW.

Two reasons for this (mainly):
1) makefiles are available
2) MPW is free from Apple' site

There are several problems in switching to Apple's MPW that I'm trying 
to solve. Most of the problems are linked with the standard C libraries 
that make R (but several other famous carbon applications) fail to run 
under OS X.
Apple is going to release a major fixing for this and as soon as it is 
available I'll adopt it.

With point 1) I have in mind possible future Mac/R developers but also 
users that wants to build their own packages for R.

The biggest part of delay in releasing precompiled contributed packages 
is that I have to build them one by one with almost an ad hoc procedure. 
Now with MPW all will be automated and simpler.

Have a good summer
				Stefano