The same goes here regarding support. I am (co-)maintaining a package on ropensci focusing on provider-agnostic CI approaches for R (tic) and have quite some experience with all the little culprits there.
Since you mentioned Travis: Be aware that the R community is (slowly but actively) moving away from Travis for a few reasons. Also on GitHub Actions you can only build on 10.15 (Catalina) right now. Best, Patrick On 1. Apr 2020, 15:41 +0200, Bob Rudis <b...@rud.is>, wrote: > I shall pile on with an additional offer of assistance, Simon and a huge #ty > for this and all the work you do. > > > On Apr 1, 2020, at 09:30, Balamuta, James Joseph <balam...@illinois.edu> > > wrote: > > > > Simon, > > > > Thanks for the overview! A few quick questions: > > > > 1. Compiler-wise, the external clang compiler requirement was removed and, > > so, there is no guarantee of OpenMP on macOS again? > > 2. Why was 10.13 chosen as the oldest system instead of 10.14 given the new > > push for increased security by Apple? > > 3. How likely is the oldest system requirement to be bumped in a patch > > release? > > > > Also, if you need help with mac-builder, Travis, or GitHub Actions, I'm > > more than happy to help! > > > > Best, > > > > JJB > > > > On 3/31/20, 11:59 PM, "R-SIG-Mac on behalf of Simon Urbanek" > > <r-sig-mac-boun...@r-project.org on behalf of simon.urba...@r-project.org> > > wrote: > > > > Dear Mac users, > > > > R 4.0.0 will be using an entirely new toolchain, entirely new build system > > on entirely new macOS version and hardware. Therefore I would like to ask > > you kindly to test the binaries from > > > > https://mac.R-project.org > > > > before the release as much as you can. Raising any issues after the release > > is too late! So please, please, test the pre-releases. Report any issues > > either directly to me or this mailing list. > > > > The nightly builds are signed, but not necessarily notarized. However, the > > build fulfils Apple's conditions and is known to pass notarization (in fact > > the the package available for download today is actually notarized) so it > > should be a good test for the release which will be notarized and should > > work on Catalina. > > > > For those that want to replicate our setup - technical details: we are now > > building with macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) as target (i.e. the oldest > > supported system), regular Apple Xcode/command line tools and GNU Fortran > > 8.2. R builds are running on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) with Xcode 11.4 using > > macOS 10.13 target. Packages are built on macOS 10.13 VMs with just Apple > > command line tools (this should make it easy to replicate the setup using > > Travis, for example). All 3rd party libraries that CRAN uses are available > > in http://mac.r-project.org/libs-4/ > > > > The new R build system is in > > https://svn.r-project.org/R-dev-web/trunk/QA/Simon/R4 > > Packages build system has not changed and is in > > https://svn.r-project.org/R-dev-web/trunk/QA/Simon/packages > > > > We also plan to have a mac-builder available with similar function as the > > win-builder where pre-submission tests can be performed and potentially a > > Travis template. > > > > Please test R pre-releases and provide feedback! > > > > Thanks, > > Simon > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
