Gábor Csárdi

`cran_package_history("-")`was never supposed to do anything meaningful.

That endpoint is pretty heavy on the DB, so I definitely don't want to support it in pkgsearch. In fact I might need to remove it completely, or heavily cache...

No, that's not heavy at all, but it also takes a very long time to make thousands of HTTP queries. I don't know of any good way currently.

I like the idea of having a daily Parquet file available with all the data.

The problem is the line breaks are calculated before the `transform` takes effect, so the output potentially still depends on how long the transformed value was. There isn't much we...

What is `getOption("repos")`?

> But maybe there is a built-in way to configure private CRAN-like repositories and behind authentication? No, there isn't currently. But we can add that, no problem. You essentially need...

Is this a protocol with a public spec, e.g. OAuth 2.0, or something in house?

> I get an error about not being able to find the right version for dependency packageB, despite the fact that commit org/repo@abcd123 contains a reference to org/packageB@ in Remotes....

> the actual `pak::pkg_install` also only supports one package at a time I don't think that's true: ```r pak::pkg_install(c("filelock", "nanoparquet"), lib = tempfile()) ``` works fine. We'll have a `lib_upgrade()`...