On Apr 20, 2006, at 1:23 PM, Henrik Bengtsson (max 7Mb) wrote: > Is it a general consensus on R-devel that *.tar.gz distributions > should only be treated as a distribution for *building* packages > and not for developing them?
I don't know whether this is a general consensus, but it definitely an important distinction. Some authors put their own Makefiles in src although they are not needed and in fact harmful, preventing the package to build on other systems - only because they are too lazy to use R building mechanism for development and don't make the above distinction. I'm not saying anything about make check here - my point is that tar- balls and development sources are definitely two separate concepts. For simple packages it may be possible to just tar-up the development sources, but that's rather a special case. Cheers, Simon ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
