From Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at  Thu Feb 12 16:06:15 1998
From: Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich Leisch)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 17:06:15 +0100
Subject: Submissions to CRAN
Message-ID: <199802121606.RAA15350@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at>


Hi again,

a fortnight ago I've sent an email concerning the package format for
submissions to CRAN ... it turned out that

	a) my english wasn't good enough and
	b) I hadn't given it enough thought :-)

Anyway, after some discussion here on this list (and some direct
emails) here is a new proposal summing everything up:

Every package should contain a file called DESCRIPTION in the top
directory (the one containing the R, man, src, ... dirs) looking like:

Package: e1071
Version: 0.7-3
Author: Compiled by Fritz Leisch <Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at>.
Description: Miscellaneous functions used at the Department of
        Statistics at TU Wien (E1071). 
Depends:
License: GPL version 2 or later



I've changed `Copyright' to `License'. This field should contain a
general phrase or well-known abbreviation, maybe  followed by a
reference to the actual License file.

Examples:

License: GPL version 2 or later

License: Free for non-commercial use, see the file COPYRIGHT for details


Is this OK with everybody?


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The second thing is, if we want to have a single tar ball for each
package, or if one tar ball can contain several (closely related)
packages (like the dse tar file currently in CRAN/src/contrib/devel)

I'm not sure ... (first I said `No!', than Paul said `Why?' and I had no
good answer so I said `Don't know') ... any preferences?



Best,
Fritz
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Submissions to CRAN
Friedrich Leisch