From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 26369@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26369: [PATCH] import cran: Fetch DESCRIPTION files from Github mirror.
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 13:14:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3101pm9.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a87oega8.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> * guix/import/cran.scm (%bioconductor-svn-url): Remove variable.
>> (bioconductor-mirror-url): New procedure.
>> (fetch-description): Take a REPOSITORY symbol instead of a BASE-URL string.
>> (cran->guix-package): Pass REPOSITORY symbol to "fetch-description".
>> (latest-cran-release, latest-bioconductor-release): Adjust accordingly.
>> (bioconductor-package?): Update comment about SVN.
>
> LGTM.
>
> Out of curiosity, what’s the rationale for using the GitHub mirror
> instead of the SVN repo?
The Bioconductor people have been planning for a while to retire their
SVN repository and use the Github mirror exclusively. I heard from
Bioconductor users that this move is going to happen soon.
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Ricardo
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-05 13:37 bug#26369: [PATCH] import cran: Fetch DESCRIPTION files from Github mirror Ricardo Wurmus
2017-04-10 9:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-10 11:14 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2017-05-16 19:39 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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