Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> writes: > On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
[...] >> We need to address this: With 2600+ packages and continued growth, >> manually wading through README is not good enough. We should do >> better. Resources (time, money, servers, ...) would help. Maybe one >> day someone with more time can fold this into a proper sub-project of >> a larger grant application. It would be worth, and I would try to >> help, time permitting. I'm one of the people who made stabs at this in the past. I had a fairly complete Gentoo process in place, but then the sickness passed. More recently, I've been peripherally involved with an effort to translate CRAN to redhat-land. When we talked about this most intensely last (waaay back in 2006), I had a detailed submission for an "Extended depends string", a strictly formatted field to accompany or supplant the existing system depends. I also supplied suggested code to translate a string in this format to a simple depstring, which would neatly plug into the existing depstring infrastructure already in place. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.devel/9179 So, for an example extended depstring src <- "libgd (>= 1.9.0) (gentoo gd >= 2.0) (debian >= 1.9.2)" extdepstring2depstring(src) yields "libgd (>= 1.9.0)" and extdepstring2depstring(src,systype="debian") yields "libgd (>= 1.9.2)" and extdepstring2depstring(src,systype="unknown") yields the default. I think this would be preferable to a growing taxonomy of Depends-[system]: - Allen S. Rout ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
