From maiagx at gmail.com  Sun Dec 27 00:26:16 2009
From: maiagx at gmail.com (Charlotte Maia)
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:26:16 +1300
Subject: [Rd] simplifying number of R installations on disk
Message-ID: <b7bfe54e0912261526k2c541356y86aa27ae9d5400f3@mail.gmail.com>

I think it's a very bad idea to truncate version numbers.
Version numbers are important, and there may be a critical difference
x.y.0 and x.y.1.
Plus there is no guarantee that the updated version is better than the
previous one.
Hence a programmer may need to go back to x.y.0 until x.y.2 is released.

Perhaps there should be an option somewhere to remove existing
installations (maybe there is????), however by default, installing a
new version of a programming language, should not uninstall existing
versions.


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Charlotte Maia
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[Rd] simplifying number of R installations on disk
Charlotte Maia