Dirk Eddelbuettel: BH 1.90.0-1 on CRAN: New Upstream
Boost is a very large and
comprehensive set of (peer-reviewed) libraries for the C++ programming
language, containing well over one hundred individual libraries. The BH package provides a
sizeable subset of header-only libraries for (easier, no linking
required) use by R. It is fairly
widely used: the (partial) CRAN mirror logs (aggregated from the cloud
mirrors) show over 41.5 million package downloads.
Version 1.90.0 of Boost was released a few days ago following the
regular Boost release schedule of April, August and December releases.
As before, we packaged it almost immediately and started testing
following our annual update cycle which strives to balance being close
enough to upstream and not stressing CRAN and the user base too much.
The reverse depends check revealed only one really minor issue among the
over three hundred direct reverse dependencies. And that issue was
addressed yesterday within hours by a truly responsove maintainer (and
it helped that a related issue had been addressed months earlier with
version 1.89.). So big thanks to Jean-Romain Roussel for the
prompt fix, and to Andrew
Johnson for the earlier test with 1.89.0.
As last year with 1.87.0, no new Boost libraries were added to BH so the (considerable)
size is more or less unchanged. It lead to CRAN doing a manual
inspection but as there were no other issues it sailed through as is now
in the CRAN repository.
The short NEWS entry follows.
Changes in version
1.90.0-1 (2025-12-13)
Upgrade to Boost 1.90.0, patched as usual to comment-out
diagnostic suppression messages per the request of CRANMinor upgrades to continuous integration
Via my CRANberries, there
is a diffstat report relative to the previous
release. Comments and suggestions about BH are welcome via the issue
tracker at the GitHub
repo.
This post by Dirk
Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box
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