From baier at ci.tuwien.ac.at  Wed Jul 21 16:29:14 2004
From: baier at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Thomas Baier)
Date: Wed Jul 21 16:29:23 2004
Subject: [Rd] RE: [Rcom-l] rcom 0.97 available for download
In-Reply-To: <20040721141846.GA23293@sonny.eddelbuettel.com>
Message-ID: <200407211429.i6LETEA1022180@elendil.ci.tuwien.ac.at>

> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:39:29AM -0400, Liaw, Andy wrote:
> > Would it make sense to have platform specific packages in a separate area on
> > CRAN?  I don't know of anything other than Windows that understand COM.
> 
> Yup, and 'core' CRAN contains at least one Windows-only package: rbugs [ as
> I found when working on a script to automagically build Debian packages from
> CPAN packages, the script is a modified version of Albrecht's script ]
> 
> So apart from moving arch-specific packages into their own little corners [
> bad, balkanization ] we could extend the Description file and flag the
> architecture restriction there.

That sounds reasonable to me. At the moment, there's just a configure
script in rcom issuing an error on non-windows platforms. (thanks to kh
for this.)

Thomas


[Rd] RE: [Rcom-l] rcom 0.97 available for download
Thomas Baier