2009/3/16 Andreas Tille <[email protected]>: > On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >> The new cran2deb is on R-Forge.r-project.org, and one fellow already >> managed >> to set up an instance local to his lab. Now Charles and I think it is too >> early for that but heck. > > I admit I'm keen on seeing a bioc2deb and I would even consider > baby sitting the resulting packages through new etc - perhaps Charles > Plessy might share some experiences from Debian Perl group how they handled > the grunt work.
I do not see why cran2deb could not build bioc packages too: really it's R2deb that focuses upon cran at the moment. The only issue is the work involved in getting the dependency magic right (as often R packages have poorly specified dependencies and licenses). As Dirk can attest, this can be a rather time consuming and intricate task. Early on in gsoc08 I built bioc and cran packages but dropped bioc because cran was the focus. charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
