[Rd] [RFC] A case for freezing CRAN
Geoff Jentry
geoffjentry at hexdump.org
Wed Mar 19 16:22:22 CET 2014
> using the identical version of each CRAN package. The bioconductor
> project uses similar policies.
While I agree that this can be an issue, I don't think it is fair to
compare CRAN to BioC. Unless things have changed, the latter has a more
rigorous barrier to entry which includes buy in of various ideals (e.g.
interoperability w/ other BioC packages, making use of BioC constructs,
the official release cycle). All of that requires extra management
overhead (read: human effort) which considering that CRAN isn't exactly
swimming in spare cycles seems unlikely to happen.
It seems like one could set up a curated CRAN-a-like quite easily,
advertise the heck out of it and let the "market" decide. That is, IMO,
the beauty of open source.
-J
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