Re: [PATCH] Add Bioconductor importer and updater.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

>> I was wondering whether this should be a separate script or not.  A
>> precedent would be the ELPA importer, which takes a repository name as
>> an argument.  We could have done the same with the CRAN importer here.
>
> I would prefer not to have a separate script, because there’s so much
> duplication.  I’ll look at the ELPA importer for inspiration.
>
> Should the CRAN importer have its name changed, though?

I think it’s fine to call it CRAN, even if it supports other
repositories.  The CRAN and ELPA importers support the CRAN/ELPA
repository formats, not just the same-named repositories.

Ludo’.