From tlumley@u.washington.edu  Mon Oct 28 15:08:46 2002
From: tlumley@u.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 07:08:46 -0800 (PST)
Subject: RFC: no automatic updates of packages with major version change
In-Reply-To: <15804.65096.834736.160738@celeborn.leisch.at>
Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.44.0210280705450.104804-100000@homer36.u.washington.edu>

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
>
> We want to define a "major version number change" as a change of the
> first digit of the version number, such that 1.1.1 -> 2.0.0 is a major
> change, while 1.1.1 -> 1.2.0 is not. An exception will be that a move
> from 0.x to 1.x is no major change (because the 0.x series is read as
> "working towards 1.0").
>

While R could set whatever standards it likes for package numbers I think
it's asking for trouble to require no API changes before version 1.0 (as
grid illustrates)

	-thomas

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RFC: no automatic updates of packages with major version change
Thomas Lumley