On Thursday 24 September 2015 19:54:04 Ludwig Geistlinger wrote: > Well, I guess, Dan, that basically means that breaking cannot happen > within Bioc (as broken packages do not propagate to the repository) and > such cases are exclusively due to breaking of external dependencies such > as observed with KEGGREST and KEGG (where we can hardly do much about it). > > Thus, it remains to clarify on the purpose of the “build” shield as > Wolfgang pointed out. > While it is surely helpful for the developer to grasp what is going on at > a glance, this might be misleading for users and reviewers as described > earlier. > > Ludwig
The build sheet isn’t completely indicative of a package being good to go or not: As the team has assured me, builds failing because the “perceval” machine can’t handle C++11 are no problem. Best, p Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH) Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1 85764 Neuherberg www.helmholtz-muenchen.de Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende: MinDir'in Baerbel Brumme-Bothe Geschaeftsfuehrer: Prof. Dr. Guenther Wess, Dr. Nikolaus Blum, Dr. Alfons Enhsen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 6466 USt-IdNr: DE 129521671 _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel