[Bioc-devel] HTTP GET and POST with RCurl | RMySQL

Hi Steffen,

Overall, I think making use of RCurl, and for webservices, SSOAP, is a
good idea and something that we would like to encourage.

- Do users find RCurl hard to install and is it easier to install
  than RMySQL on all platforms.

In general, I think the answer is yes.  As long as an appropriate
version of the RCurl binary package has been made available (by
Omegahat) then installation is entirely trivial on Windows.  On
unix-like systems, libcurl is commonly available.

- Will a package that depends on RCurl be build on the bioconductor 
repository for all platforms? (With RMySQL my package is not being
build on Windows as RMySQL is not installed)

Yes, although as you can see, we seem not to have a binary version of
RCurl available for R-devel.  We will fix this.  Note that for us,
keeping RCurl going on Windows is *much* easier than keeping RMySQL
going.

Best Wishes,

+ seth