[Rd] Possible improvements/clarifications for R-forge (Was: Re: Using SVN + SSH on windows)

[cgenolin at u-paris10.fr]

> Getting back to the original poster who may have been forgotten in all
> this, alternatives are switching to Linux and using R-Forge with that
> (if such a switch in platforms is feasible) or using googlecode
> (that's the largest repository of R projects outside of CRAN with 237
> R projects listed -- it uses https rather than ssh which eliminates
> all the problems).

Naive question: Is it not possible to make R-forge works either with 
ssh or with https?