On 8 December 2005 at 16:55, Andreas Tille wrote:
| On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
|
| > That ITP is officially dead. Action, if any, can be had around the pkg-bioc
| > project on alioth where we have some rough code to spew out hundreds of .deb
| > packages based on sources from both CRAN and BioC.
|
| I just notice that I was actually talking about the Emboss suite
| (http://www.emboss.org/) and not bioconductor - but the situation seems
| to be similar (if not worse than bioconductor).
What is the story with emboss? Couldn't find it for the currently ongoing
preparations of the next Quantian update. Are there binaries somewhere?
| > [ It is also unclear, at least to me, whether adding some 120 (for
| > BioC) packages (or 600-some in the case of CRAN) to Debian en bloc is wise.
]
| > But I want the apt-get'ability of CRAN and BioC, maybe from outside
archives.
|
| If you and probably other people as well who are interested in biological
| research I see no reason to keep these packages outside the official Debian
That is exactly the rub: I am not a BioC user, and I can't be the default
maintainer for another few dozen (or dozen squared) packages.
| archive. I know that Debian-Med has at least one effect: We are winning
| users in the field of biology and medicine and we are winning them because
| we are at least promising to care for them - even if we proceed slowly.
Yes, and hopefully one day we'll be able to lean on someone with the need and
the know to coordinate that.
| > Now, to make this a tad more actionable: Would someone want to make revival
| > of this an item for the suggested Estremedura workshops and get some people
| > in the same room for two or three days to push this further? Anybody care
to
| > run with that idea and organise it?
|
| Extremadura workshop about R? I guess this is a great idea! Even if I
| will not take part in one of the first announced meetings I hope to be
| there in at least one at the end of the year.
Yes, it would be excellent to get a few interested people together to work on
this.
Cheers, Dirk
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