[R-SIG-Mac] Binary R-devel Builds For OS-X

brodie gaslam brod|e@g@@|@m @end|ng |rom y@hoo@com
Fri May 29 00:23:44 CEST 2020


I just installed the 4.0 patched binary, and noticed that it is still at 5/24 (i.e. pre Beta, although I'm guessing that's a minor distinction).  3.6 was updated yesterday.  Since I'm not too familiar with this process yet, what kind of update schedule should I expect for these binaries?

Best,

Brodie.






On Saturday, May 16, 2020, 4:22:40 AM EDT, peter dalgaard <pdalgd using gmail.com> wrote: 





Yes. Simon's policy is just to use the current x.y SVN branch (say R-4.0-branch) which goes through the alpha-beta-RC-(release)-Patched cycle. 

I.e. R-4.0-branch.pkg will _be_ the prerelease at the relevant stage of the development cycle.

(Nerdy details: There is only x.y.0 alpha, otherwise we go directly from, say, "4.0.0 Patched" to "4.0.1 beta"; or, differently put, R-patched _is_ the alpha for the next version. Also, the unqualified x.y.z name is only there while the relase tarball is being created, which is about 5 minutes on release day so never makes it to the nightly builds.)  

-pd

> On 16 May 2020, at 02:27 , brodie gaslam <brodie.gaslam using yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Presumably the alpha/RC releases are also posted to the mac.r-project.org page.

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