[Rd] CRAN: Update protocol buffers on macOS? (for RProtoBuf)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 06/07/2018 04:32, Jonathon Love wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I notice that the CRAN binary for the macOS version of RProtoBuf is 
> built against quite an old version of protocol buffers (from 2014, 
> before v3 format support was added).
> 
> the windows version is (blessedly) kept up-to-date, but I'd like to 
> float the suggestion that the macOS version get an update too.

If you mean the CRAN macOS binary package for RProtoBuf, why did you 
post here?  R-sig-Mac would have been more appropriate, but the CRAN 
policies tell you how to report issues/wishes for binary packages.  Only 
one person can help you with that, and it is most effective to contact 
him directly.

RProtoBuf does not compile on macOS against the current/latest version 
3.6.0 of protobuf (sic), and I have reported to the maintainer.  It did 
compile against 3.5.1, and you could compile from sources yourself.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley using stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford