> > ...but that's a luxury someone would have to pay for. > I'd happily give up my Netflix subscription for this. I suspect the R-foundation/consortium could assist as well?
Referring to the "Using Rust in CRAN packages" document we must be able to ...download a specific version from a secure and reliable site but, as far as I can tell, there is no definition of "secure" or "reliable" or examples of these. Is there a specification of availability / uptime for the site? Or otherwise. *What venues do we have for working on this issue in a formal manner?* I think that these small issues add up and really do hamper the ability for R to grow as a language. Talented developers (that adjective does not apply to myself) spend *a lot* of time trying to resolve these issues. And too many (one is too many) have given up on CRAN and consequently their contributions to R have dwindled. There are a number of really great tools that have to handle this independently (arrow R packages and DuckDB are good examples) but they have teams and funding behind them. If the bar is going to be so high to publish a package, we need to at least make a ladder (tools, packages, templates etc) to get there. ---- https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/using_rust.html On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 1:21 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > Software Heritage (see [1] for their website and [2] for a brief intro I > gave > at useR! 2019 in Toulouse) covers GitHub and CRAN [3]. It is by now 'in > collaboration with UNESCO', supported by a long and posh list of sponsors > [4] > and about as good as it gets to 'ensure longevity of artifacts'. > > It is of course not meant for downloads during frequent builds. > > But given the 'quasi-institutional nature' and sponsorship, we could think > of > using GitHub as an 'active cache'. But CRAN is CRAN and as it now stands > GitHub is not trusted. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > Dirk > > > [1] https://www.softwareheritage.org/ > [2] https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/papers/useR2019_swh_cran_talk.pdf > [3] https://www.softwareheritage.org/faq/ question 2.1 > [4] https://www.softwareheritage.org/support/sponsors/ > -- > dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel