On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 09:33:28AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes: > > > On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 09:36:28AM +0200, Roel Janssen wrote: > >> * gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm (r-edger): New variable. > > > > I tried to build this (and limma), but the source tarball is no longer > > available. I couldn't find any archived releases on the bioconductor > > site. > > Yes, this is a very annoying problem with Bioconductor. I’m not sure > but I think this has been raised on the Bioconductor mailing lists some > months ago. There is no archive at the moment. > > All previous releases might still be available via SVN, though, so maybe > we can find a way to generalise this and add an SVN origin as a > fallback. Maybe we should not use the tarballs at all and convert all > of the Bioconductor packages to use SVN instead? >
It would be easier than making our own archive of releases or systematically uploading them all to archive.org. -- Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted
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