[R-SIG-Mac] R-devel for Leopard?

[Simon Urbanek]

On Sep 16, 2008, at 12:25 , joseph franklin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is almost certainly a naive question, but what happened to R- 
> devel (2.8.0) for Leopard at http://r.research.att.com/ ?  The  
> nightly build appears to be failing.

Yes, a HDD failed in the ppc64 (G5) build machine. Hence the builds  
are incomplete and thus don't pass checks. Rosetta doesn't work for 64- 
bit, so we cannot use the main (Xeon) machine for ppc64 builds. In  
fact I have just disabled the ppc64 checks earlier today, so at least  
tri-arch binaries should be available tomorrow. I think we will soon  
drop [binary] ppc64 support altogether given that it's such a pain to  
maintain and has pretty much no benefits.


>  Is there another location to download the developer release for  
> OS10.5?  (It was working fine at http://r.research.att.com/ a few  
> weeks ago).
>

No in the sense that http://R.research.att.com is the canonical source  
of the "official" Mac builds. If the builds are not there, then  
something is wrong and it's being worked on ;).

Cheers,
Simon