The concerns over github going away (!!) (or altering references, tags, releases, ...) may be somewhat alleviated by Software Heritage [1] covering and 'preserving' it. FWIW I briefly spoke about that iniative and a possible CRAN connection at useR! in Toulouse four years ago [2].
I think I understand where CRAN is coming from. Builds for Debian have the same requirements of 'everythin all at once better be local'. Sadly what I see in day to day life (hello cmake, hello vcpkg) moves firmly the other way. We shall see how it all shakes out. I would be very much in favor of workable rust (and then go, and so on) solution. Dirk [1] https://www.softwareheritage.org/ [2] https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/papers/useR2019_swh_cran_talk.pdf -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
