Re: [pkg-bioc] Re: Genetics Program
* Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> [2005-12-10 08:16]:
> Undoubtedly many of the CRAN/BioC packages would build and work just fine.
> But the problem is that a fair number require hand-holding to, say, properly
> translate CRAN dependencies into Debian dependencies, make sure those are all
> present and installable, do some extra work to prevent building (for the
> Windows only packages), do follow-up work (CIGwithR wants interaction with
> webserver, gnomeGui ships as a package but is "only" a glade file that gets
> installed somewhere else, RScaLAPACK needs a mess of library arrangements
> (or, rather, an upstream autoconf patch) etc pp. It should *really* work,
> not *just work*.
>
> [...]
>
> But I think we need to work a few more details out before we charge ahead. I
> may be in the minority here and don't mean to block or veto this, but who
> exactly would do the work? You have your hands-full with Octave, Steffen
> seems busy with his dozen plus packages, I have Quantian plus a few dozen
> packages --- so who is going to run this? It will take one or two hours of
> daily hand-holding.
Is it really that amount of *_daily_* hand-holding, or is it just a lot
of work to set up things and then it runs almost automatically?
At any rate, I am not willing to spend time *_daily_* on this project. I
think we need a volunteer here, perhaps someone willing to become a
Debian developer who is not yet maintaining other packages.
--
Rafael
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