Right now we do not index cran packages that do not have a known github owner or maintainer. It would be nice to index these somehow, although we have very limited interesting metadata on these packages.
We could also index cran copies of packages from github. Some people really want to be able to see info on the 'release' version of pkgs. Another benefit would be that for packages with broken vignettes, we can still show the cran version of the vignette. But we don't want to create duplicates, so we want should make sure the github version and cran version have a single home url.
One way would be:
A special registry for cran (using only metacran as sources).
No need to build binaries for these, because these are already on CRAN.
jeroen
commented
11 months ago
Right now we do not index cran packages that do not have a known github owner or maintainer. It would be nice to index these somehow, although we have very limited interesting metadata on these packages.
We could also index cran copies of packages from github. Some people really want to be able to see info on the 'release' version of pkgs. Another benefit would be that for packages with broken vignettes, we can still show the cran version of the vignette. But we don't want to create duplicates, so we want should make sure the github version and cran version have a single home url.
One way would be:
selfowned = falsein the search?