From tim.triche at gmail.com  Fri Mar 21 03:19:52 2014
From: tim.triche at gmail.com (Tim Triche, Jr.)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 19:19:52 -0700
Subject: [Rd] [RFC] A case for freezing CRAN
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Heh, you just described BioC

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> On Mar 20, 2014, at 7:15 PM, G?bor Cs?rdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:45 PM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com> wrote:
> 
>>> In particular, updating a package with many reverse dependencies is a
>>> frustrating process, for everybody. As a maintainer with ~150 reverse
>>> dependencies, I think not twice, but ten times if I really want to
>> publish
>>> a new version on CRAN.
>> 
>> It might be easier if more of those packages came with good test suites.
> 
> Test suites are great, but I don't think this would make my job easier.
> More tests means more potential breakage. The extreme of not having any
> examples and tests in these 150 packages would be the easiest for _me_,
> actually. Not for the users, though.....
> 
> What would really help is either fully versioned package dependencies
> (daydreaming here), or having a CRAN-devel repository, that changes and
> might break often, and a CRAN-stable that does not change (much).
> 
> Gabor
> 
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[Rd] [RFC] A case for freezing CRAN
Tim Triche, Jr.