Quarto

[jwokaty]

Can the build system have Quarto vignettes?

[jwokaty]

The BBS can't accommodate Quarto (.qmd) vignettes. Currently, the vignettes are created via R CMD build, which creates a tarball. Vignettes are then extracted from tarballs via biocView::extractVignettes() (see https://github.com/Bioconductor/biocViews/blob/devel/R/repository.R#L351), which takes the vignettes from the inst/doc path. R CMD build will not generate files from .qmd.

Additionally, Quarto isn't out-of-the-box compatible with BiocStyle.

[hpages]

@jwokaty A usecase for Quarto just showed up (see Bioconductor/Contributions#3118) so I installed it on the Linux builders. See https://github.com/Bioconductor/BBS/blob/devel/Doc/Prepare-Ubuntu-22.04-HOWTO.md#31-install-quarto

Note that in this case Quarto is needed to build a book, not a vignette.