On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > On 9/10/05, Thomas Lumley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >>> >>> And one more comment. The DESCRIPTION file does not record the >>> location or existence of the various subdirectories such as R, man, >>> exec, etc. If NEWS is to be recorded as a meta data line item in >>> DESCRIPTION then surely all of these should be too so its symmetric >>> and they are all on an equal footing (or else none of them >>> should be, which in fact I think is preferable). >>> >> >> I don't see any advantage in symmetry. The locations of these > > The present discussion is where the change information may be located > but that is also true of the source and other information. We could > just as easily have a field in the DESCRIPTION that tells the build > where to find the R source. > Its really the same issue. >
There are two important differences 1/ No existing package has its source anywhere other than in the R subdirectory. Existing packages have their change logs in different places and different formats. 2/ Having source code where it will not be found must be an error -- making the source code available to R *cannot* be optional. Making a change log available *must* be optional. -thomas ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel