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Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] R-devel update schedule/strategy for Bioc devel build machines
From: Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba () fredhutch ! org>
Date: 2014-10-31 20:28:25
Message-ID: 487429246.483860.1414787305264.JavaMail.root () fredhutch ! org
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba@fredhutch.org>
> To: "Gabe Becker" <becker.gabe@gene.com>
> Cc: bioc-devel@r-project.org, "Jim Fitzgerald" <fitzgerald.james@gene.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:23:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] R-devel update schedule/strategy for Bioc devel \
> build machines
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Gabe Becker" <becker.gabe@gene.com>
> > To: bioc-devel@r-project.org, "Jim Fitzgerald"
> > <fitzgerald.james@gene.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:21:17 AM
> > Subject: [Bioc-devel] R-devel update schedule/strategy for Bioc
> > devel build machines
> >
> > Bioc admins,
> >
> > We have an automatic build/test mechanism for our internal packages
> > which
> > we'd like to match the Bioc build machines as closely as possible.
> > AFAIU,
> > the exact commit-specific version of R-devel used on your devel
> > build
> > server changes occasionally within Bioc releases, and we'd like to
> > mirror
> > those changes on our system.
> >
> > Is there a set schedule for when the exact commit of R-devel on
> > your
> > build
> > server changes?
>
> No. We do it in response to the following events:
>
> - significant changes in the R code
> - "seems like a while since we last updated R"
> - milestones leading up to release (release candidates, alpha, beta,
> etc).
>
> You could scrape the build report daily to see if the version of R
> has changed.
>
> Also, do you guys grab them as tarballs, or
> > checkout/update
> > from the svn?
>
> Tarballs.
BTW, I don't know if you are concerned about platforms other than Linux, but for Mac \
and Windows we install the binaries provided by CRAN, we don't build R from source on \
these platforms any more.
Dan
> Dan
>
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ~G
> >
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