[pkg-bioc] Hello!

[Johannes Ranke]

* Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> [060609 13:50]:
> 
> On 9 June 2006 at 06:13, Johannes Ranke wrote:
> | Maybe we should scale down the scope of the CRAN script to packages that
> | actually build and are useful in Debian and that we care for. There is
> | a lot of CRAN packages now that are probably only interesting for a very
> | small number of people, as far as I can see.
> 
> No. As you will see, the 'recipe' scales as CRAN packages build so well under
> an automated system. So we may as well build everything we can legally [ so
> drop non-free for now ] and technically [ some are Win only etc ]

Convinced.
 
> On 9 June 2006 at 11:00, 'Johannes Ranke' wrote:
> | I hope your exams went fine! OK, Dirk and you convinced me to using perl
> | for a start. Dirk suggested to split tasks as follows:
> | 
> | 	- updating the source mirror
> | 	- updating the metadata
> | 	- computing the mapping to Debian packages
> | 	- publishing results
> | 	- etc pp
> 
> That list was from the top of my head and for illustration only. I suggest
> you start by getting the existing script from CVS, use it for a bit and we
> all [ who are willing to participate ] think about how to do it better.

Right.
 
Best,

Hannes

> Congrats to Andrew for finishing the exams. Nothing but summer ahead for a
> while ...
> 
> Dirk
> 
> -- 
> Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. 
>                                                   -- Thomas A. Edison

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