On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Vincent Carey <st...@channing.harvard.edu> wrote:
> our guidelines state > > Packages you depend on must be available via Bioconductor or CRAN; users > and the automated build system have no way to install packages from other > sources. > > with increased utility of devtools/install_github perhaps we can relax > this? > > is it a can of worms we don't want to open? > > Gabe Becker is finishing up a framework that generalizes the notion of package repositories such that packages can be distributed over multiple sources, including traditional repositories and SCM systems like Github. If Bioconductor were to maintain a manifest, then our generalized installation machinery would be able to install everything in a dependency-aware manner (install_github can only resolve dependencies located in repositories). BiocInstaller could wrap it. The manifest system is a prototype for something that could end up in R itself. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
