On 03/06/2019 9:16 p.m., Steven Penny wrote:
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 8:04 PM Duncan Murdoch wrote:
I don't recall anyone asking for the zip in the 17 years after that
change, until now (though I haven't been paying attention lately, since
I retired from building the binaries a couple of years ago).
If you think it's worthwhile to do it, then I don't think anyone would
object if you went ahead and did so.
If I visited this page:
https://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/windows/base
and found Zip builds I would use those. Not only do those not exist, but the
installer has been created in such a way that it cant even be extracted from.
Just because you dont recall it, doesnt mean the demand isnt there. The R
community isnt exactly reachable:
NOTE: due to abuse by spammers, since 2016-07-09 only “members” (including all
who have previously submitted bugs) can submit new bugs on R’s Bugzilla. For
now, either post (e-mail) your bug report to R-devel or ask an R Core member to
add you manually to R’s Bugzilla members.
http://r-project.org/bugs.html
So bugs and feature requests cant even be posted to bugzilla. Then regarding the
mailing list, even if subscribed you cant post, as all posts are moderated.
Compare to other languages, where you just log in an post an issue:
- https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues
- https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues
- https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues
- https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues
- https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/issues
- https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues
If R team is happy with current status quo, then do nothing. If they are
interested in growing the userbase this might be one way to do it.
You are as much a member of the R team as I am. If you are interested
in growing the userbase, then you should go ahead and do it.
By the way, I realized after posting that I was wrong when I said nobody
would object if you did that. People object to everything.
Duncan Murdoch
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