Re: Bioconductor: Use SVN/git by default?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> The lack of an archive is also a problem for reproducibility.  You
> simply cannot download an archive for an obsolete package version.

[...]

> What do you think?  I see no way around using the sources from the
> central Bioconductor SVN repository as tarballs simply don’t give us
> what we need in terms of reproducibility.

Would it help if we had access to a universal content-addressed archive
that would include everything Bioconductor has ever published?

That could be another solution (with a big “if”, granted ;-)).

Ludo’.