[pkg-bioc] R statistics aggregator thread

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 29 June 2007 at 16:11, Steffen Moeller wrote:
| You question is if we could possibly come up with an rss feed to inform the 
| world about updates? 

Yes, I had long rambled and dreamed about a service that watch
$CRAN/src/contrib and puts out messages for 
 - new package, possibly copying all of DESCRIPTION
 - updated packages, ideally showing the ChangeLog entry but given that it is
   missing (in a standardized / guaranteed form) from CRAN source, maybe just 
   use diffstat, as well as stateful info from the db (days since last update
   etc) 

I don't think this has to be part of cran2deb, but it could obviously borrow
some code.

Does that tickle anybody else?  

Dirk

-- 
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. 
                                                  -- Thomas A. Edison