On 15 October 2009 at 09:54, Uwe Ligges wrote: | The PACKAGES file in src/contrib also points to the packages in | src/contrib/2.10.0. It is up to Dirk to use the information in PACKAGES | correctly as it is done for the Windows and Mac binaries on CRAN.
I am -- which is why I took care of 'effects' where yesterday's release to upgrade as MASS complained loud and clear thanks to its R (<= 2.9.2) and I am now using R 2.10.0 beta. The issue at hand are the 'conditional' source directories. We (eg Debian) use so-called watch files to match current versions against http or ftp-reachable sources, and that scheme simply does cooperate with the scheme I could satirically describe as 'CRAN sources here when the moon is half full but there otherwise'. *Unconditionally* computable URLs are simply easier to handle. "We" (eg Debian) deal with some 15,000 source packages from a presumably similarly large number of sources. Special-casing the PACKAGES file is out of scope. Then again, with my Debian developer hat on, I can certainly cope with that, and I don't see a much cleaner way forward. Part of the problem simply is that I am 'early' with some packages, but that is in simply to help in getting pre-releases out so that we catch a bug or two. I was just trying to point out potential sources of confusion, and you are quite right in pointing me to the PACKAGES file. OTOH, consider that eg Brian always reminds people to use pre-release, and if one then does simple non-R-based searches such as the URL expansion http://cran.r-project.org/package=MASS or the direct http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/MASS/index.html one arrives at entirely misleading information. Just sayin' ... and as above, this cannot be corrected as the Apache macro / cgi expander cannot know that I have R 2.10.0 in mind. I'll drop this now, and thank everybody for taking the time to follow-up. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel