[R-SIG-Mac] Binary builds for CRAN packages for R-devel on apple silicon

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM Jeroen Ooms <jeroenooms using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 4:53 AM Simon Urbanek
> <simon.urbanek using r-project.org> wrote:
> >
> > Kasper,
> >
> > TL;DR working on it should be within a week or so.
>
> Afaik there are no ABI changes this release, so the 4.4 binaries
> should work on 4.5? Maybe a symlink contrib/4.5 -> contrib/4.4 would
> work as a transition solution until the release.

Here is a simple proxy in R, install the webfakes package first, in
any version of R, then run:

webfakes::new_app()$get(
  webfakes::new_regexp(""), function(req, res) {
    url <- sprintf(
      "https://cloud.r-project.org/%s",
      gsub("4.5", "4.4", req$path)
    )
    res$redirect(url)
  }
)$listen(3000)

and then in another R-devel session you can install 4.4 binary packages:

install.packages("tiff", repos = "http://localhost:3000")
install.packages("cli", repos = "http://localhost:3000")

The sad news is that while tiff seems to work, cli crashes immediately
when loaded.

G.

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