I think we should have a CRAN snapshot (or a subset of CRAN used in Bioc) inside each Bioc release; I don't know how hard that is to manage from a technical point of view.
Best, Kasper On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Julian Gehring <julian.gehr...@embl.de>wrote: > Hi, > > For most problems discussed here, it seems that having a fixed version of > package is sufficient rather than a specific version. If the idea of a > snapshot with each bioc release would work (which still means one version > per package), so would requiring that version within the package (one would > just need to agree which version this is). > > Best wishes > > Julian > > > what if two Bioc packages require different version of the âsameâ CRAN >> package? >> AfaIu, the infrastructure is not designed to deal with multiple versions >> of a package. >> >> Nor would I as a user expect to have less-than-the-most recent versions >> of CRAN packages in my library just because some other package says so⦠>> >> Just to throw in another, and probably silly suggestion: the Bioconductor >> repository could keep âsnapshotsâ of CRAN packages compatible with each >> release, but they would have to be name-mangled in some way. The potential >> for confusion is enormous. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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