On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edd@debian.org">edd@debian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
"Sugar" started really only good post-0.8.2. And with the Rmetrics meeting<br>
coming up, and a larger than usual set of changes, we released 0.8.3 right<br>
before that meeting. At the time Rcpp passed on all systems we could test on.<br>
We do nto release when we know of failures. [ Hint: If only we already had<br>
"bin-builder" ... ].<br></blockquote><div><br>I think you mean win-builder (<a href="http://win-builder.r-project.org/">http://win-builder.r-project.org/</a>), and yes, using<br>this service as part of integration testing before releasing to CRAN will reduce<br>
the number of problems for client packages that use Rcpp. 1000 unit tests will<br>not help. Indeed, this should be required given that you do not use or test<br>under Windows, yet there are many Windows users.<br><br>It would also be helpful if you inform the authors of client packages before<br>
releasing duplicate functionality that will break the build for these<br>packages (Rcpp 0.8.3 broke the build of cxxPack). This incompatibility<br>was known, yet was released.<br><br>Dominick<br><br><br><br></div></div>