Message-ID: <21044.24904.252175.502172@max.nulle.part>
Date: 2013-09-14T13:14:48Z
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Subject: declaring package dependencies
In-Reply-To: <52345ECC.7090407@gmail.com>
On 14 September 2013 at 09:04, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
| On 13-09-13 12:00 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > But the focus here should not be on my hobby package. The focus needs to be
| > on how four CRAN maintainers (who do a boatload of amazing work which is
| > _truly_ appreciated in its thoroughness and reach) could make the life of
| > authors of 4800+ packages easier by communicating and planning a tad more.
|
| Let me paraphrase that: "The CRAN maintainers do a lot of work, and it
| helps me a lot, but if they only did a little bit more work it would
| help me even more."
|
| I suspect they'd be more receptive to suggestions that had them doing
| less work, not more.
Presumably that also holds for the authors of the 4800+ packages.
But my point is not the about "less", it is about "more predictable".
Currently, the system appears to be anything but. We can do better.
Dirk
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