Hi Kevin, On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 9:36 PM Kevin Ushey <kevinus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > FWIW, I'm excited at the prospect at seeing a new toolchain for > Windows, since it would imply support for C++17 and so it would become > easier for CRAN packages to depend on the newer C++ standard. > One thing to keep in mind (having been the R installation owner in such a place for multiple years) is that many coproprate or otherwise controlled compute environments may not have access to a c++17 compiler on their servers so making it easy for packages to rely on that is not purely beneficial to all parts of the R community. Not saying that should heavily inform this decision, just wanted to throw that out there since the topic came up. Personally if R packages are making the switch all the way up to 17 this soon I have to say i'm glad I got out of the R administration game. I don't have anything to add about the toolchain update discussions , though from what Prof Ripley said I guess they are ongoing. ~G > > Thanks, > Kevin > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
