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  As for the difference between source packages and built packages, yes 
it would be nice at some time to enter into a discussion on that topic. 
There are lots of things that can be done at build time (that are not 
currently being done) that would speed up package installation etc. But 
they come at the price that Henrik has mentioned. The built package is 
no longer suitable for development. And hence we may usefully consider 
another format (something between source and binary, .Rgz?)

I didn't get any time before the feature freeze to work on a new package
mechanism, but I think that is what is needed rather than tweaking and
complicating the existing collection of perl and shell scripts.
I believe it is time that we now move the package system to R code
and use real OOP to allow for all these differences.
Now that I am not teaching 5 days a week, I will have time to work on
this and so get the frameworks (packages that provide compiled/native
routines for other packages to use) as a first example.  Hopefully
sometime in (northern hemispher) summer.

  best wishes
    Robert

If there is need, we could start having developer-package repositories.
However, I'd prefer a different approach.  We're currently in the
process of updating the CRAN server infrastructure, and should be able
to start deploying an R-forge project hosting service "eventually"
(hopefully, we can set things up during the summer).  This should
provide us with an ideal infrastructure for sharing developer resources,
in particular as we could add QC testing et al to the standard community
services.

Best
-k

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