Hi, On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 at 09:41, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> wrote:
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > > ;; This is a CRAN package, but it uncharacteristically depends on a > > ;; Bioconductor package > > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > > > Do you remember a special motivation? > > Yes, the comments say why. It’s very unusual for a CRAN package to > depend on Bioconductor packages. Usually, it is the other way around. > I just didn’t want (gnu packages cran) to point to (gnu packages > bioconductor). A more correct way to deal with this would be put these > outliers in a separate module, or even to ignore this all together until > it becomes a problem. If I understand well, the policy is: the packages in the file cran.scm cannot import '(gnu packages bioconductor). In the file cran.scm, for example the packages r-shiny or r-sankeyd3 do not come from CRAN but directly from Github. Maybe, we could group all the 6 non-CRAN packages and the 4 CRAN packages depending on Bioconductor to a unique file. What do you think? > > 2. > > The second point is that the file statistics.scm contains 227 packages > > and 206 are cran-uri. And the file cran.scm already contains 602 > > packages, so it will be almost as python-xyz.scm is. Why not. Then, > > this file statistics.scm will be almost empty and I propose instead to > > populate the files maths.scm, python-xyz.scm. > > > > What do you think? > > statistics.scm was the only thing we had for R in the beginning. When > it grew and it became apparent that more and more CRAN packages would be > added, I felt that the module became less suitable. Sorry, my words was not good enough. I propose to remove the file statistics.scm by reordering the packages. > I don’t understand your comment about “maths.scm” and “python-xyz.scm”. > I think it’s good to move CRAN and Bioconductor packages out of > statistics.scm whenever possible. We can leave the actual statistics > programs there as well as potentially unmovable CRAN packages. In the file statistics.scm, once move to cran.scm or bioconductor.scm, there is few packages. For example 2 packages coming from PyPI and I propose to move them to the file python-xyz.scm. The other ones could be moved to the file maths.scm or the unamed (yet) file (see above). > > 3. > > It is a big move. Do you prefer > > - a commit per package, so more or less 300 commits? > > - or a commit bioconductor.scm->cran.scm, another > > statistics.scm->cran.scm, bioinformatics.scm->bioconductor.scm and > > bioconductor->bioinformatics.scm, etc.? > > I prefer one commit per moved package. I guess this is not what you > hoped for, but it makes for a more fine-grained log — and it boosts your > commit stats ;) Ahah! I was almost sure you answered that. :-) Ok, I will. Be prepared for the storm. ;-) All the best, simon
