* Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-12-10 08:16]: > Undoubtedly many of the CRAN/BioC packages would build and work just fine. > But the problem is that a fair number require hand-holding to, say, properly > translate CRAN dependencies into Debian dependencies, make sure those are all > present and installable, do some extra work to prevent building (for the > Windows only packages), do follow-up work (CIGwithR wants interaction with > webserver, gnomeGui ships as a package but is "only" a glade file that gets > installed somewhere else, RScaLAPACK needs a mess of library arrangements > (or, rather, an upstream autoconf patch) etc pp. It should *really* work, > not *just work*. > > [...] > > But I think we need to work a few more details out before we charge ahead. I > may be in the minority here and don't mean to block or veto this, but who > exactly would do the work? You have your hands-full with Octave, Steffen > seems busy with his dozen plus packages, I have Quantian plus a few dozen > packages --- so who is going to run this? It will take one or two hours of > daily hand-holding.
Is it really that amount of *_daily_* hand-holding, or is it just a lot of work to set up things and then it runs almost automatically? At any rate, I am not willing to spend time *_daily_* on this project. I think we need a volunteer here, perhaps someone willing to become a Debian developer who is not yet maintaining other packages. -- Rafael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
