Hello Vincent, Vincent Goulet schrieb: > Please also consider that I build these R packages solely as a service to the > community. I no longer use Ubuntu myself on any of my computers (Macs for > desktop, Debian stable for servers)! I took quite some time to write build > scripts to automate most of the process and I'm getting ever more resistant > to change as time goes by. You may find my scripts useful, though; see > https://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/svn/R/cran-ubuntu/.
I can absolutely see your point, and I won't insist, but before I give up, I will try to convince you once more. First, what we are looking for in RKWard, is building packages much more often than just for every stable release, ideally even daily. This is not only to make it easier for testers to follow the development, but also to discover build problems early on, instead of a few days before the targetted release date. I really, really appreciate your work of providing backports of rkward. But now we want more, and I assume that's more than you'd be willing to provide for us. This is not beyond the scope of launchpad though, and basically, all we need to do is to feed it our sources in regular intervals. However, if we also want to use launchpad to compile against R backports (and we do want that), then these need to be hosted somewhere on launchpad. The primary audience for your R-backports on launchpad would not be end-users. Rather this would allow developers to use launchpad PPAs for compiling their software against your backports - without maintaining installations of several different releases of Ubuntu on two different architectures. Now, if needs be, we could just fetch your source-packages from CRAN, and feed them into a launchpad PPA, ourselves. However, keeping that in sync would mean a bunch of work that we would simply like to avoid. Using a launchpad PPA would not only make *our* life a bit easier, but possibly it could also save *you* some work in the future. For instance, it might lower the barriers for somebody else to take over responsibility for the backports one day. In this context, note that launchpad also allows to set up a PPA for teams of people, not just individuals. Well, I hope this is enough to change your mind, but if it's not, I can totally understand that as well. Regards Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ RKWard-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkward-devel
