Re: [rkward-devel] R backports on launchpad

2010-05-08 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi, On Monday 03 May 2010, Vincent Goulet wrote: > It's ok that you insist. At first sight, maintaining a PPA does not seem > like a lot of additional work. I'm just afraid that at some time, it will > involve some time that I'm just not willing to spend on that project. > Sorry. ok. Thanks fo

Re: [rkward-devel] R backports on launchpad

2010-05-03 Thread Vincent Goulet
Hi Thomas, It's ok that you insist. At first sight, maintaining a PPA does not seem like a lot of additional work. I'm just afraid that at some time, it will involve some time that I'm just not willing to spend on that project. Sorry. As I said in my first message, feel free to use my build scr

Re: [rkward-devel] R backports on launchpad

2010-04-27 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi Michael, Michael Rutter schrieb: > I looked into using a Launchpad PPA this morning, and the following line > from the help pages (https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/Uploading) > may be an issue for concern: > > Note: We will not accept uploads of packages that are unmodified from > t

Re: [rkward-devel] R backports on launchpad

2010-04-27 Thread Michael Rutter
Thomas, I looked into using a Launchpad PPA this morning, and the following line from the help pages (https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/Uploading) may be an issue for concern: Note: We will not accept uploads of packages that are unmodified from their original source in Ubuntu or Debian

Re: [rkward-devel] R backports on launchpad

2010-04-27 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
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 m

Re: [rkward-devel] R backports on launchpad

2010-04-27 Thread Vincent Goulet
Hi Thomas, I had a quick look to the PPA system and, indeed, it does not seem to be a lot of additional work to support. However, I don't really see the benefit compared to what we already provide on CRAN, namely: o R binaries on many Ubuntu releases, on i386 and amd64. Launchpad may support

[rkward-devel] R backports on launchpad

2010-04-27 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Dear Vincent Goulet, dear Michael Rutter, I'm writing to you as the maintainers of the R-backports for Ubuntu on CRAN. In the RKWard project, we are currently looking for a workable option for creating binary packages of development snapshots more often. launchpad.net offers "Personal Package A