[rkward-devel] R backports on launchpad

[Vincent Goulet]

Hi Thomas,

It's ok that you insist. At first sight, maintaining a PPA does not seem like a lot of additional work. I'm just afraid that at some time, it will involve some time that I'm just not willing to spend on that project. Sorry.

As I said in my first message, feel free to use my build scripts to maintain PPAs for R.

Best regards,

Vincent

Le mar. 27 avr. à 11:15, Thomas Friedrichsmeier a écrit :

> Hello Vincent,
> 
> Vincent Goulet schrieb:
>> Please also consider that I build these R packages solely as a service to the community. I no longer use Ubuntu myself on any of my computers (Macs for desktop, Debian stable for servers)! I took quite some time to write build scripts to automate most of the process and I'm getting ever more resistant to change as time goes by. You may find my scripts useful, though; see https://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/svn/R/cran-ubuntu/.
> 
> I can absolutely see your point, and I won't insist, but before I give 
> up, I will try to convince you once more.
> 
> First, what we are looking for in RKWard, is building packages much more 
> often than just for every stable release, ideally even daily. This is 
> not only to make it easier for testers to follow the development, but 
> also to discover build problems early on, instead of a few days before 
> the targetted release date.
> 
> I really, really appreciate your work of providing backports of rkward. 
> But now we want more, and I assume that's more than you'd be willing to 
> provide for us. This is not beyond the scope of launchpad though, and 
> basically, all we need to do is to feed it our sources in regular 
> intervals. However, if we also want to use launchpad to compile against 
> R backports (and we do want that), then these need to be hosted 
> somewhere on launchpad.
> 
> The primary audience for your R-backports on launchpad would not be 
> end-users. Rather this would allow developers to use launchpad PPAs for 
> compiling their software against your backports - without maintaining 
> installations of several different releases of Ubuntu on two different 
> architectures.
> 
> Now, if needs be, we could just fetch your source-packages from CRAN, 
> and feed them into a launchpad PPA, ourselves. However, keeping that in 
> sync would mean a bunch of work that we would simply like to avoid.
> 
> Using a launchpad PPA would not only make *our* life a bit easier, but 
> possibly it could also save *you* some work in the future. For instance, 
> it might lower the barriers for somebody else to take over 
> responsibility for the backports one day. In this context, note that 
> launchpad also allows to set up a PPA for teams of people, not just 
> individuals.
> 
> Well, I hope this is enough to change your mind, but if it's not, I can 
> totally understand that as well.
> 
> Regards
> Thomas