From kjetilh@umsanet.edu.bo  Mon Oct 28 14:41:58 2002
From: kjetilh@umsanet.edu.bo (kjetil halvorsen)
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 10:41:58 -0400
Subject: RFC: no automatic updates of packages with major version change
References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0210281107130.7939-100000@artemis>
Message-ID: <3DBD4CB6.1DEDEB5@umsanet.edu.bo>



Torsten Hothorn wrote:
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> 
> Or should this be part of R CMD check? Maybe R CMD check can download the
> `official' release from CRAN to check against an API change and give a
> warning?

It would be very inconvenient if R CMD check couldn't be run on a
machine without internet conection --- or a very unstable conection, as
I have.

Kjetil Halvorsen

> 
> best,
> 
> Torsten
> 
> > In case of a major change
> >
> > *) update.packages() will warn the user if ask=TRUE, like
> >
> > mclust :
> >  Version 1.1-7 in /usr/local/lib/R-contrib
> >  Version 2.0-1 on CRAN
> >  WARNING: major version number change
> > Update (y/N)?
> >
> > *) if ask=FALSE, update.packages() will cowardly refuse the updates
> >  and issue a warning for all packages that have not been updated.
> >
> > *) the same will be done for the methods working off packageStatus
> >  objects.
> >
> > Note that we are already working on new package management tools which
> > should make it easier to have multiple versions of a package installed
> > simultaneously.
> >
> > All comments are welcome.
> >
> > Best,
> > Fritz
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RFC: no automatic updates of packages with major version change
kjetil halvorsen