Interested in adding windows builds with Appveyor?

[sckott]

If so, i can do, let me know

[cboettig]

Yup, let's give it a go. at least CRAN seems to be managing to build the windows binaries, so should be a good test.

[sckott]

ok

[sckott]

@cboettig I added appveyor file, badge to readme, and turned on daily builds for the package, that run around 730-930 am each day

The basic appveyor.yml file may not have everything it needs to build correctly, we'll see how it goes with this first build https://ci.appveyor.com/project/sckott/rnexml

[sckott]

Hmm not sure what the equivalent of sudo apt-get will be for Windows in the appveyor file 0a56c8f - Appveyor obviously doesn't like those commands since it's windows, anyone know

[rvosa]

Unless the universe has drastically changed over the last few years there is nothing even remotely like apt-get under Windows. Seeing that this is for libxslt I suspect there would have to be some very dodgy maneuver to download the equivalent *.dll and place it somewhere in the %PATH%. Likewise, shell scripts won't work either and would have to be converted to *.bat scripts.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what we're trying to accomplish here but this seems more trouble than it's worth? Who uses Windows anyway? ;-)

[sckott]

I wouldn't be surprised if more than 50% of our users across our pkgs are windows users. Maybe phylogenetics community is an especially non-Windows community though.

Anyway, the point is to know quickly when a change is breaking on Windows.

[cboettig]

CRAN is already supplying windows builds and daily windows checks for
RNeXML, so even though we may have a lot of Windows users I don't think we
need to worry about this. See
http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_RNeXML.html

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 6:36 AM, Scott Chamberlain <notifications@github.com

wrote:

I wouldn't be surprised if more than 50% of our users across our pkgs are
windows users. Maybe phylogenetics community is an especially non-Windows
community though.

Anyway, the point is to know quickly when a change is breaking on Windows.

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[sckott]

Definitely do remove, but CRAN is only testing the CRAN version. i guess this package doesn't primarily work with a web API that can change, so less important here