On Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 7:44:15 PM UTC+2, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: > > > > On Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 7:05:27 PM UTC+2, leif wrote: >> >> Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: >> > While trying my hand <https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/20523> at >> porting >> > R 3.3.1 to Sage (needs_review, by the way), I found this in the >> > current R Installation and Administration manual >> > <https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#Cygwin> >> : >> > >> >> C.8 Cygwin >> >> >> >> The 32-bit version has never worked well enough to pass R’s make >> > check, and residual support from >> >> earlier experiments was removed in R 3.3.0. >> > I wonder what the residual support was... > >> >> >> >> The 64-bit version is completely unsupported. >> > I concur, but that was for bad reasons, or let's be fair, one could say > the lack of manpower maybe? > >> > >> > Maybe we should consider to have an interface to system's R rather than >> > our own version (and therefore make it an optional package) >> >> +1 for making it an optional package. (It's by the way not what I'd >> call a small package, and also takes some time to build.) >> >> > >> The Cygwin developers certainly have to say something regarding support >> as a standard package. (I don't think it would make sense to upgrade >> Sage's R version *and* keep it a standard package if it does no longer >> build on Cygwin. We could presumably still keep Rpy and let it use the >> system version of R, also on Windoze, if present and suited.) g >> >> It's not my impression that The R folk really supported any version of > Cygwin recently. > I even got bashed out when proposing a simple and non-intrusive patch for > Cygwin64. > The point is that it seems hopeless to push patches upstream which is a > very bad point. > gwthat hard at all, one just needs a setup and a very little bit of good > will: > ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwin/x86_64/release/R/ > So yes R still builds on Cygwin32/64. > And frankly the set of patches shipped by Cygwin is really small... One would need to make a diplomatic move toward R folk.
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