On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 9:15 AM Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > > On 02/04/2020 05:35, Kevin Ushey wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Has a decision been made yet as to whether R 4.0.0 on Windows is going > > to be built using the new gcc8 toolchain (described at > > https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/testing/rtools40.html)? > > Short answer: 'no'. > > >>From the sidelines, I can see that the toolchain is being used to > > build and test packages on CRAN; if there are any remaining issues > > that I can help to try and run down (either in R or any CRAN packages) > > I'd be happy to try and help. > > It is still under consideration, but resource constraints are biting > hard as people's lives get more complicated.
Given the amount of work that has gone into this and the importance of an up-to-date toolchain for maintaining well-functioning and current system libraries and R packages, I think it should be considered to delay the R 4.0 release over this until everyone is ready. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel