zimoun <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> writes:
> If I understand well, the policy is: the packages in the file cran.scm > cannot import '(gnu packages bioconductor). Yes. It’s not official policy, but I think we should avoid mutually recursive module imports when we have a choice. > 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? Yes, the should probably be moved. It’s also very easy to miss them when doing mass upgrades, hidden among all these CRAN packages. >> > 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 think it’s fine to keep statistics.scm even when it’s small. R and pspp *are* stats packages after all, so this module remains the perfect location for them. >> 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). I’d like to avoid moving anything *to* python-xyz.scm, because it’s a bit of a dump. I think it’s fine to just focus on the R packages for now and address the rest later — if at all. -- Ricardo
