From jgentry at jimmy.harvard.edu  Wed Jul 21 16:57:44 2004
From: jgentry at jimmy.harvard.edu (Jeff Gentry)
Date: Wed Jul 21 17:06:48 2004
Subject: [Rd] RE: [Rcom-l] rcom 0.97 available for download
In-Reply-To: <20040721144924.GA23942@sonny.eddelbuettel.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.20.0407211056210.1942-100000@jaws.dfci.harvard.edu>

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> Precisely. Let's have one source repo but _let us label any and all binary
> restrictions_ more clearly so that I for one can skip over stuff that may
> build for you [ Windoze ] but won't for me [ Linux, preferable on all all
> ten to twelve hardware platforms supported by Debian for packages that get
> uploaded ].  

While there's no automated checking of the field, there is the
SystemRequirements field in the DESCRIPTION file which is intended for
dependencies which are not R packages.  I have only seen it used for
external libraries and the like but this would seem to be a place where
one could specify any particular platform requirements as well.

-J


[Rd] RE: [Rcom-l] rcom 0.97 available for download
Jeff Gentry