[pkg-bioc] Re: Genetics Program

[Andreas Tille]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> That ITP is officially dead. Action, if any, can be had around the pkg-bioc
> project on alioth where we have some rough code to spew out hundreds of .deb
> packages based on sources from both CRAN and BioC.

I just notice that I was actually talking about the Emboss suite
(http://www.emboss.org/) and not bioconductor - but the situation seems
to be similar (if not worse than bioconductor).

> Welcome to the club, but, as you know, whining alone doesn't get us there
> either.

Surely not.  I just wanted to know if your local harddisk has perhaps
better code than public archives and we could get some help from your site.

> [ It is also unclear, at least to me, whether adding some 120 (for
> BioC) packages (or 600-some in the case of CRAN) to Debian en bloc is wise. ]
> But I want the apt-get'ability of CRAN and BioC, maybe from outside archives.

If you and probably other people as well who are interested in biological
research I see no reason to keep these packages outside the official Debian
archive.  I know that Debian-Med has at least one effect: We are winning
users in the field of biology and medicine and we are winning them because
we are at least promising to care for them - even if we proceed slowly.

> One day someone with both an itch to scratch _and_ the will and time to work
> on it will push this further. Steffen Moeller did the last iteration and
> created a large number of apt-get'able packages.  But that site was a
> one-off, hence has not been updated, was never fully checked against Policy,
> Lintian et al and may also have gotten temporarily lost in his move from
> Rostock to Luebeck. Steffen can tell you more.

Well since Steffen moved he seems to be a little bit more busy than before.
Perhaps he has to do some sightseeing in Lübeck first. ;-)

> Now, to make this a tad more actionable: Would someone want to make revival
> of this an item for the suggested Estremedura workshops and get some people
> in the same room for two or three days to push this further?  Anybody care to
> run with that idea and organise it?

Extremadura workshop about R?  I guess this is a great idea!  Even if I
will not take part in one of the first announced meetings I hope to be
there in at least one at the end of the year.

Kind regards

          Andreas.

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