----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtene...@fredhutch.org> > To: "Gabe Becker" <becker.g...@gene.com> > Cc: bioc-devel@r-project.org, "Jim Fitzgerald" <fitzgerald.ja...@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.g...@gene.com> > > To: bioc-devel@r-project.org, "Jim Fitzgerald" > > <fitzgerald.ja...@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 > > > > -- > > Computational Biologist > > Genentech Research > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
