On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 17:39 -0400, fred smith wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:26:22PM -0400, JohnS wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 15:45 -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:00 PM, nate <centos at linuxpowered.net> wrote: > > > R P Herrold wrote: > > > > > > > oh please -- move advocacy to a new thread raher than > > > > hijacking. Quantity does not imply quality, and AWOL > > > > maintainers who move on is a problem in all of FOSS > > > > > > Quality is implied by the hefty QA process debian goes > > > through, and the long release cycles. I thought I had > > > communicated that in the previous message. The last two > > > major releases took almost 2 years of work each. Similar > > > to the QA that Red Hat does, which is why their base packages > > > are solid and well tested. This same level of QA of course > > > doesn't apply to 3rd party repos. > > > > > > > and so R-2.9.0 is not available to you, and if your users > > > > wanted R-xts, to extend zoo [which extends R], the only > > > place > > > > for those packages in Debian packaging are r-forge and CRAN > > > > (as they are not in any 'official' Debian archive, and only > > > > in the independents). > > > > > > The users will have to make do with what there is. The same > > > is true for CentOS/RHEL on my systems. I can't remember the > > > last time I went to CPAN. I did maintain a couple dozen ruby > > > on rails packages at my last company for the systems there, > > > everything built by hand, it wasn't easy, or fun. > > > > > > For what it's worth, I like both CentOS and Debian. (Heck, I even like > > > openSUSE as an OS, but I'm not crazy about Novel's smooching with > > > Microsoft.) > > --- > > Not crazy about smooching huh? Ever bother to really research the facts? > > RedHat and MS are parteners! In the Virtualization area and more. > > Speaking of researching the facts, I suggest you do the same. > > RedHat's "partnership" with MS most specifically does NOT include any > kind of patent licensing crap. -- Ohh yes I aware of am that. :-)