I maintain a collection of Debian packages of CRAN and BioC[1] for public use; currently, whenever BioC makes a new release, it requires manual intervention for me to point at the new release location.
It would be helpful if there was a http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/current redirect to the current release, or if there was another easily parsable method to obtain the current bioC release version. FWICT, neither http://bioconductor.org/getBioC.R nor http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R encode that information either,[2] unless that's what CURRENT_R_DEVEL_VERSION <- "2.14.0" is supposed to be. 1: http://debian-r.debian.net/ 2: I should also point out that the current methodology of installing BioC using code from a remote host is problematic as it exposes users to MITM attacks because it is never checked for authenticity via PGP or at the very least, SSL. As such, sourcing that script and using variables populated by it isn't really acceptable. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I never until now realized that the primary job of any emoticon is to say "excuse me, that didn't make any sense." ;-P -- Cory Doctorow _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel