Re: Fwd: Upcoming release RKWard 0.7.0 - Call for testing

Am Sonntag, 8. April 2018, 14:37:56 schrieb Vojtěch Zeisek:
> Sorry for confusion. Quoting from the forwarded mail: "...RKWard 0.6.5 will
> not work with R 3.5.0 at all...".

Right.
But you wrote that rkward 0.7.0 won't work with R 3.4, and that's wrong. ;-)

> I read it as there is some change in R, so
> that just recompilation wouldn't be enough. If not, good. :-)

Sure, there are changes in R 3.5, otherwise it wouldn't get a new version 
number... ;-)

That rkward 0.6.5 won't work with the upcoming R 3.5 even if recompiled is 
nothing new either though. rkward 0.6.3 even failed to build with R 3.3.x, so 
had to be updated to 0.6.5 back then or it would have had to be dropped from 
the distribution and wouldn't have been included in Leap 42.2.
(I updated the rkward package back then, even though I'm not a maintainer)

In this particular case, it seems that rkward would crash with R 3.5.
That's been fixed 2 weeks ago:
https://cgit.kde.org/rkward.git/commit/?id=eb252517d4b80075683f4cba4246c7a17487037a

At least that's the only relevant change since the openSUSE package has been 
switched to the Qt5/KF5 based git snapshot in December.

> > But R 3.5.0 is not released yet. AFAIK it's planned for the end of April.
> 
> Exactly.

On the 23rd to be exact.
And rkward 0.7.0 is scheduled for April 16th now (as written in the mail you 
forwarded), so everything should be fine.

If rkward's release should be delayed for some reason, I will take appropriate 
actions though of course, either add the necessary patch or update to latest 
git master. We'll see in a week...

> > (rkward 0.6.5 is irrelevant here as we don't have that in openSUSE
> > anymore)
> 
> Isn't 0.6.5 still available in OSS for 42.3? I see it at
> https://software.opensuse.org/package/rkward

0.6.5 is included in standard 42.3, yes.
But that comes with R 3.3.1 anyway. Updating R to 3.5.0 in Leap 42.3 would 
rather be against openSUSE's update policies, but even if that would happen 
for some reason it would require an rkward update anyway so we can just as 
well add the patch or update it to 0.7.0 at the same time.

No point in worrying about that though IMHO.

devel:languages:R.released (which will of course get the latest R version 
eventually, as it is the devel project for R in Factory) only contains *one* 
rkward version/package (built for several distributions including 42.3), and 
that will be updated anyway (also rkward is maintained in that repo, i.e. it's 
also the devel project for rkward in Factory).

Kind Regards,
Wolfgang

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