[pkg-bioc] BioConductor

[charles blundell]

2009/3/16 Andreas Tille <tillea at rki.de>:
> On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>> The new cran2deb is on R-Forge.r-project.org, and one fellow already
>> managed
>> to set up an instance local to his lab. Now Charles and I think it is too
>> early for that but heck.
>
> I admit I'm keen on seeing a bioc2deb and I would even consider
> baby sitting the resulting packages through new etc - perhaps Charles
> Plessy might share some experiences from Debian Perl group how they handled
> the grunt work.

I do not see why cran2deb could not build bioc packages too: really
it's R2deb that focuses upon cran at the moment. The only issue is the
work involved in getting the dependency magic right (as often R
packages have poorly specified dependencies and licenses). As Dirk can
attest, this can be a rather time consuming and intricate task. Early
on in gsoc08 I built bioc and cran packages but dropped bioc because
cran was the focus.

charles