On 20 September 2021 at 07:50, Andreas Tille wrote: | On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 03:45:57PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | > | I'm thinking about a "fake-basilisk" like r-cran-bh or r-bioc-zlib. | > | > I had a similar thought. I am also friends with the author of it. | > | > They are doing 'The Right Thing' there for _their_ purposes at BioC in | > abstracting OSs away and offering 'Python as a Service' for all setups. | > | > We have a much more controlled setup and _maybe_ we could splice in a | > 'basilisk-lite' not requiring conda and all that crap. Would be worth a | > shot, but is almost a new research project. I don't have time to dive into | > this though. I could ask him if it ever came up before. | | It would be great if you could involve upstream into the discussion | here.
Tricky. I think I take a pass. I said I am friendly with Aaron, I did not say I would promise to pull him into a discussion he did not sign up for. What they have does solve their problem -- we have to learn to accept that. I still have a problem with us pestering upstream _for packages that are scoring perfect at CRAN_ and have no errors there. Our dirty laundry (often due to us mismatching packages) is not their problem. Anyway, I said it before, nobody listened to it then so no hope today either ... 'basilisk-lite' is a really nice (research) idea and would be a seller on cloud services. Maybe Aaron would even be interested in working on it. You could ask him, his email is public. Dirk -- https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org