[Bioc-devel] Shouldn't we distinguish between package-specific and dependency errors?]

[Philipp Angerer]

On Thursday 24 September 2015 19:54:04 Ludwig Geistlinger wrote:
> Well, I guess, Dan, that basically means that breaking cannot happen
> within Bioc (as broken packages do not propagate to the repository) and
> such cases are exclusively due to breaking of external dependencies such
> as observed with KEGGREST and KEGG (where we can hardly do much about 
it).
> 
> Thus, it remains to clarify on the purpose of the “build” shield as
> Wolfgang pointed out.
> While it is surely helpful for the developer to grasp what is going on at
> a glance, this might be misleading for users and reviewers as described
> earlier.
> 
> Ludwig

The build sheet isn’t completely indicative of a package being good to go or 
not: As the team has assured me, builds failing because the “perceval” 
machine can’t handle C++11 are no problem.

Best, p
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