Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-edger.

[Efraim Flashner]

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 09:33:28AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> 
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 09:36:28AM +0200, Roel Janssen wrote:
> >> * gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm (r-edger): New variable.
> >
> > I tried to build this (and limma), but the source tarball is no longer
> > available. I couldn't find any archived releases on the bioconductor
> > site.
> 
> Yes, this is a very annoying problem with Bioconductor.  I’m not sure
> but I think this has been raised on the Bioconductor mailing lists some
> months ago.  There is no archive at the moment.
> 
> All previous releases might still be available via SVN, though, so maybe
> we can find a way to generalise this and add an SVN origin as a
> fallback.  Maybe we should not use the tarballs at all and convert all
> of the Bioconductor packages to use SVN instead?
> 

It would be easier than making our own archive of releases or
systematically uploading them all to archive.org.

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