bug#26369: [PATCH] import cran: Fetch DESCRIPTION files from Github mirror.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> * guix/import/cran.scm (%bioconductor-svn-url): Remove variable.
>>> (bioconductor-mirror-url): New procedure.
>>> (fetch-description): Take a REPOSITORY symbol instead of a BASE-URL string.
>>> (cran->guix-package): Pass REPOSITORY symbol to "fetch-description".
>>> (latest-cran-release, latest-bioconductor-release): Adjust accordingly.
>>> (bioconductor-package?): Update comment about SVN.
>>
>> LGTM.
>>
>> Out of curiosity, what’s the rationale for using the GitHub mirror
>> instead of the SVN repo?
>
> The Bioconductor people have been planning for a while to retire their
> SVN repository and use the Github mirror exclusively.  I heard from
> Bioconductor users that this move is going to happen soon.

Pushed to master.

-- 
Ricardo