Dear list, When developing a bioconductor package, how would one specify which platforms are supported, or unsupported? For example, linux and windows are supported, Mac is not supported. Thanks. Xian

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Zhang Xian <x.zhang@dkfz- heidelberg.de="">wrote: > Dear list, > > When developing a bioconductor package, how would one specify which > platforms are supported, or unsupported? For example, linux and windows are > supported, Mac is not supported. > > Hi, Xian. When a package is submitted to bioconductor, the packages are built on the machines in Seattle, so the developer (you, for example) do not need to have direct access to Mac in order to build and distribute code for Mac OS. It is pretty unusual for a package to not have support for all three major operating systems, but it is not unheard of. In practice, if a package is not available for a given platform, then the R install code (or biocLite) will notify the user of that fact. If you have specific needs or questions about Mac OS, for example, and your code, I would suggest following up on the bioc-devel list (cross- posted here). Sean [[alternative HTML version deleted]]