[pkg-bioc] cran2deb.pl error on gmodels

[Egon Willighagen]

On 8/29/07, Johannes Ranke <jranke at uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I don't see the advantage over plain text files being read directly by
> cran2deb.pl. Nowadays searching in a text file is so easy and fast (e.g.
> using the vim editor :).

I like plain text files a lot, because SVN commits are so readable
then. When moving to a binary db system, we loose that advantage.

> A real advantage in my eyes would be to have a
> dependency tree, e.g. in an R object created by the package that you
> mentioned a while ago.

Aren't these deps already resolved by the system?

Egon

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