From pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca  Mon Jun 11 19:34:34 2001
From: pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca (Paul Gilbert)
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 14:34:34 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Depends: R (>= x.y.z)
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Kurt

KH>At least, this was the old way.  Now that we actually have an archive
of
KH>old packages, we maybe should put them in there as well and record
the
KH>last version they were known to work with somewhere else.  (Or change

KH>the DESCRIPTION Depends info accordingly?)

KH>Argh.

I think you should promote the "upgrade to the latest version" approach
and not put too much effort into which old versions of packages work
with old versions of R. The depends information which is in a package
will already give people a pretty good clue if they are really desperate
for a package that is no longer being maintained.  My concern was mainly
because I did not at first realize that you already had a mechanism for
moving packages to "old."

Paul

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[Rd] Depends: R (>= x.y.z)
Paul Gilbert