From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add recursive CRAN importer
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 15:08:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <idjd1ob4n8v.fsf@bimsb-sys02.mdc-berlin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1464094411-8277-1-git-send-email-ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Hi Guix,
I’m sorry for the confusion. I accidentally resent this cover letter
along with the patch for r-knitrbootstrap.
Please note that the patch for r-knitrbootstrap has nothing to do with
the recursive CRAN importer patches.
~~ Ricardo
Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:
> attached is a patch series that gives us a recursive CRAN importer. I still
> haven't documented it in the manual, because I'm not sure if the
> implementation is acceptable.
>
> Simply put, the procedure that produces a package expression now returns
> multiple values. The first is the package expression, the second is a list of
> dependencies (with their upstream names). This allows us to go through that
> list and check if any unpackaged inputs are among them.
>
> The recursive importer stops when a package cannot be imported (e.g. when a
> bioconductor package has unpackaged CRAN dependencies), or when all packages
> either already existed at runtime or have been packaged.
>
> To make this work well I had to create a list of packages that should not be
> imported (because they are part of the default R installation), and I had to
> make sure that R packages always get a predictable Guix package name.
>
> Comments are very welcome!
>
> ~~ Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-24 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-24 12:53 [PATCH] Add recursive CRAN importer Ricardo Wurmus
2016-05-24 12:53 ` [PATCH] gnu: Add r-knitrbootstrap Ricardo Wurmus
2016-05-27 17:00 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-28 7:36 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-05-28 15:56 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-24 13:08 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
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2016-05-23 15:40 [PATCH] Add recursive CRAN importer Ricardo Wurmus
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