[pkg-bioc] cran2deb.pl error on gmodels

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 29 August 2007 at 13:09, Egon Willighagen wrote:
| On 8/29/07, Egon Willighagen <egon.willighagen at gmail.com> wrote:
| > I'm also thinking of separating these bits of information from the
| > source... will get back on this.
| 
| OK, submitted a patch for this (r308). %cannotBuild is now read from a
| separate file: tools/cannotBuild.list
| 
| Will do the same for other bits of information.

Before we go completely overboard here in moving information around without
adding anything fundamentally new, it may be worth figuring exactly how we
want to do that.  

I still think a shared database is best.  Given that we all have _write_
access on alioth, we could try to cook something up with simple locks that we
set whenever we change values, and otherwise _read_ by rsync/scp/... and
re-reading the db.  Which could be flatfiles, or sqlite.

And just to be a stickler: the bug is that the code doesn't figure that
gmodels/gdata are not needed. Re-declaring that in 'cannotBuild' is logically
wrong ("cannot" is false, "not required to build" is true). We need to find
the bug.  Unfortunately, the code is murky...

Ok, enough complaining.  Let's celebrate that we have a minor amount of
momentum. 

As for the sponsoring question: Sorry, I can't, too many packages already.

But good news is that that Simon tells me that rJava, JGR, ... all build with
the free java tools and could go into main.  Graphical parts still work
better with the non-free Java, but they do not need the CRAN package to be
rebuilt: just (re-)installing the commercial Java and re-running 'R CMD
javareconf' is all it takes.  So this may help for jmol...

Dirk

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