Thank you all for the explanations, and the assurance that Windows and Mac users should still be able to install it.
Robert On Tue, Mar 21, 2017, 2:56 AM Hervé Pagès <hpa...@fredhutch.org> wrote: > On 03/20/2017 02:31 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: > > As I recall, there were issues building RCytoscape (and packages that > depend on it) on Mac and Windows. Mostly because this requires a running > instance of Cytoscape for each platform (and double that for release + > devel). That used too much infrastructure so we disabled building on those > platforms. However, since RCytoscape contains no native (C/C++/Fortran) > code, it will still be available on all platforms and should install just > fine. > > > > As long as the same is true of categoryCompare then Mac/Windows users > should be able to use it. > > Exactly. Thanks Dan & Jim! > > FWIW, supported platforms are controlled via the .BBSoptions file. > I added this file in August last year: > > hpages@latitude:~/svn/bioconductor/Rpacks/categoryCompare$ svn log -v > -r120632 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > r120632 | hpa...@fhcrc.org | 2016-08-31 17:13:55 -0700 (Wed, 31 Aug > 2016) | 1 line > Changed paths: > A /trunk/madman/Rpacks/categoryCompare/.BBSoptions > > mark as unsupported on non-linux like RCytoscape which > categoryCompare depends on > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Cheers, > H. > > > > > Dan > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "James W. MacDonald" <jmac...@uw.edu> > >> To: "Robert M. Flight" <rfligh...@gmail.com> > >> Cc: "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel@r-project.org> > >> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2017 2:22:36 PM > >> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Package not being built on Windows or Mac > > > >> It's probably because you depend on RCytoscape, which isn't supported on > >> Windows or MacOS. And maybe this has something to do with XMLRPC? > >> > >> Jim > >> > >> > >> > >> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Robert M. Flight <rfligh...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> As per the exhortation to check the build status on Devel prior to next > >>> version of Bioconductor release, I just noticed that my package > >>> categoryCompare has a "not supported" on Windows and Mac. > >>> > >>> Looking at release history, this seems to I have changed at Bioc v > 3.4, > >>> and I'm curious why that would be the case. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> Robert > >>> > >>> Robert M Flight, PhD > >>> Bioinformatics Research Associate > >>> Puller of Rabbits from Hats > >>> Resource Center for Stable Isotope Resolved Metabolomics > >>> Manager, Systems Biology and Omics Integration Journal Club > >>> Markey Cancer Center > >>> CC434 Roach Building > >>> University of Kentucky > >>> Lexington, KY > >>> > >>> Twitter: @rmflight > >>> Web: rmflight.github.io > >>> ORCID: > >>> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__orcid.org_0000-2D0001-2D8141-2D7788&d=DwICAg&c=eRAMFD45gAfqt84VtBcfhQ&r=TF6f93hjWmgMzjqP9F3thRifibmFvfjc5Ae-bzNwDGo&m=KPLsJPHGh_SklfKfn_epC0AQwKR8K6yNDv7cVLAJ1FQ&s=n-q_ynuSgrWSRqpLP4_jtAcjUUkBkQS47cGcISvMTH8&e= > >>> EM rfligh...@gmail.com > >>> PH 502-509-1827 > >>> > >>> To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more > >>> than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able > to say > >>> what the experiment died of. - Ronald Fisher > >>> > >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > >>> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__stat.ethz.ch_mailman_listinfo_bioc-2Ddevel&d=DwICAg&c=eRAMFD45gAfqt84VtBcfhQ&r=TF6f93hjWmgMzjqP9F3thRifibmFvfjc5Ae-bzNwDGo&m=KPLsJPHGh_SklfKfn_epC0AQwKR8K6yNDv7cVLAJ1FQ&s=s4b92CENsDvGb5LJKA-xyg2pTKm6kJHUNfyOrk_ySY4&e= > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> James W. 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