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From: murdoch@dunc@n @end|ng |rom gm@||@com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 08:21:18 -0400
Subject: [Rd] RSS Feed of NEWS needs a hand
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I have just added R-4-4-branch to the feeds.  I think I've also fixed 
the \I issue, so today's news includes a long list of old changes.

Duncan Murdoch

On 16/03/2024 8:47 a.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> I have now put the files online at https://github.com/dmurdoch/diffnews
> .  It seemed like too much trouble to include the SVN history, so this
> is just a copy of the current version of the files.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> On 15/03/2024 12:04 p.m., Llu?s Revilla wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Thanks for this service! It is very helpful to know what is being developed.
>>
>> I distribute the content to other venues and I noticed some times that the
>> updates are duplicated.
>> For example, the sentence "?is.R()? is deprecated as no other S dialect is
>> known to be in use (and this could only identify historical dialects, not
>> future ones)." is duplicated in different days:
>> Day 1:
>> https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2024/03/07#n2024-03-07
>> Day 2:
>> https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2024/03/09#n2024-03-09
>>
>> I tried to look up how to avoid duplications with Blosxom
>> <http://blosxom.sourceforge.net/> but I didn't find a way.
>> It would be great if this could be further improved to avoid this
>> duplication.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Llu?s
>>
>> On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 at 13:50, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Years ago Duncan set up a nightly job to feed RSS based off changes to
>>> NEWS,
>>> borrowing some setup parts from CRANberries as for example the RSS
>>> 'compiler'.
>>>
>>> That job is currently showing the new \I{...} curly protection in an
>>> unfavourable light. Copying from the RSS reader I had pointed at this since
>>> the start [1], for today I see (indented by four spaces)
>>>
>>>       CHANGES IN R-devel INSTALLATION on WINDOWS
>>>
>>>       The makefiles and installer scripts for Windows have been tailored to
>>>       \IRtools44, an update of the \IRtools43 toolchain. It is based on GCC
>>> 13
>>>       and newer versions of \IMinGW-W64, \Ibinutils and libraries (targeting
>>>       64-bit Intel CPUs). R-devel can no longer be built using \IRtools43
>>>       without changes.
>>>
>>>       \IRtools44 has experimental suport for 64-bit ARM (aarch64) CPUs via
>>> LLVM
>>>       17 toolchain using lld, clang/flang-new and libc++.
>>>
>>> Can some kind soul put a filter over it to remove the \I ?
>>>
>>> Thanks,  Dirk
>>>
>>> [1] Feedly. Unless we set this up so early that I once used Google
>>> Reader. It's been a while...
>>>
>>> --
>>> dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
>>>
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[Rd] RSS Feed of NEWS needs a hand
Duncan Murdoch