----- Original Message ----- > From: "Laurent Gatto" <lg...@cam.ac.uk> > To: "Gabe Becker" <becker.g...@gene.com> > Cc: "Lisa Breckels" <lm...@cam.ac.uk>, "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel@r-project.org> > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 4:59:55 PM > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] DT CRAN vs github versions
> On 11 March 2016 00:41, Gabe Becker wrote: > >> Laurent, >> >> I'd argue quite strongly against this from a systems perspective. Your >> package wouldn't be installable via biocLite. That function can see github >> repos, but only when told to and not as dependencies AFAIK. A package >> passing but being uninstsllable would be a Very Bad Thing (tm) IMHO. >> You are right and that's why it's not going to happen. >> You do have my sympathies though, I'm blocked by a gh only patch in >> BatchJobs and have been for months. > > Yes, I do agree with you, of course. I just though I would bring the > situation up, and see if someone had a good suggestion. > > I suspect similar ones will creep up more and more in the future. My suggestion is to ask the DT maintainer to submit their new version to CRAN. Dan > > Best wishes, > > Laurent > >> Best, >> ~G >> On Mar 10, 2016 4:22 PM, "Laurent Gatto" <lg...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: >> >>> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> There have been some substantial changes in Rstudio's DT package >>> recently [1], in particular with respect to selecting rows in a >>> table. One problem is that these updates currently only live on github >>> (version 0.1.45) while CRAN is stuck at version 0.1 since September >>> 2015. This has been reported in an issue [2] in October 2015, but it is >>> not clear when these updates will be pushed to CRAN. >>> >>> One of my packages [3] currently fails because of this unmet >>> dependency. I believe that others (well, at least one Bioc developer) is >>> also waiting for an update. I was wondering if upgrading to the github >>> version on the Bioconductor build servers would be considered - while I >>> haven't done any systematic tests, I have not experienced any backwards >>> incompatibilities. >>> >>> Best wishes, >>> >>> Laurent >>> >>> [1] https://github.com/rstudio/DT >>> [2] https://github.com/rstudio/DT/issues/191 >>> [3] http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc-LATEST/pRolocGUI/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >>> > > > -- > Laurent Gatto | @lgatt0 > http://cpu.sysbiol.cam.ac.uk/ > http://lgatto.github.io/ > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
