Just went back and re-read the mailing list thread -- I think my VM is Solaris x86, so doesn't address the Sparc Solaris question anyway ...
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com> wrote: > For what it's worth I did install a Solaris VM on one of my machines > so I could run tests. This does seem a little over the top as a > requirement for all package developers though ... I have easy access > to MacOS and Ubuntu so I usually test there and on win-builder as > well. > > In my case, I eventually found that the warnings (related to some > parallelized code) could be reproduced in batch mode but *not* in > interactive mode on Solaris, so I just gave up and disabled the tests > on Solaris via if (Sys.info()["sysname"] != "SunOS") (shame on me > ...) > > A wish-list/discussion item for the CRAN maintainers would to be add a > step to the submission process, in between pushing the button to > confirm submission to CRAN and any CRAN maintainers having to look at > the submission/interact with the submitter, would be for the CRAN > results to get posted somewhere the submitter could see them. If > there were errors or warnings the submission would be automatically > rejected ... if there were notes the submitter would then have to add > a comment/press another button justifying that it was OK to ignore > them ... if the submission was completely clean it could automatically > go on to the CRAN maintainers ... > > I don't know what the costs of this would be, beyond implementing it > in the first place. It might encourage more load on the CRAN system by > allowing developers to use it as a test rig (although the > "automatically submit to CRAN if clean" behaviour would certainly > discourage this), but it's hard for me to imagine that it wouldn't be > worth it ... > > > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) > <wolfgang.viechtba...@maastrichtuniversity.nl> wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> First of all, thanks to Martin, Hadley, and Dirk (and everybody else >> involved) for setting up this new mailing list. I am sure this will become a >> tremendous resource for package developers. >> >> My question is in essence just a repost of what I asked on R-devel a few >> weeks ago: >> >> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2015-May/071147.html >> >> At the time, the 'metafor' package failed CRAN checks on Sparc Solaris. >> >> To clarify: Before I submit a new version of metafor to CRAN, I check that >> it passes 'R CMD check --as-cran' on R-devel (both 64- and 32-bit), >> R-current (whatever version this is at the time), and the oldest version of >> R specified under 'Depends' (which is currently 3.1.0 for the metafor >> package) -- so 6 checks in total. All of these checks are run on Windows >> (yes, shoot me). >> >> Admittedly, I screwed up on some package tests (using the 'testthat' >> package) -- using a few is_identical_to() instead of expect_equivalent() >> comparisons -- which I shouldn't have done in the first place. But all of >> these passed the 6 checks that I did. Not so on Sparc Solaris though (and >> apparently also not on x86_64 Linux with --disable-long-double, but as far >> as I can tell, >> http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_metafor.html does not >> indicate such a check). >> >> At any rate, I try to check the package thoroughly before submitting -- but >> clearly not thorough enough. While my mistake was easy to remedy, the more >> general question is this: Is there any possibility of checking packages on >> various architectures, and especially Sparc Solaris, before submitting? >> Also, I don't know how often it happens that packages pass the various >> flavors of R on Windows/OSX/Linux but not on Sparc Solaris, so maybe this is >> really not much of an issue. But I plan on adding additional checks to the >> package so that code coverage is much higher -- so is CRAN itself then the >> only place where I can end up running all checks? >> >> Best, >> Wolfgang >> >> -- >> Wolfgang Viechtbauer, Ph.D., Statistician >> Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology >> School for Mental Health and Neuroscience >> Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences >> Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616 (VIJV1) >> 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands >> +31 (43) 388-4170 | http://www.wvbauer.com >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
