On 03/08/2016 9:15 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 3 August 2016 at 17:35, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | No, you are reading something into my messages that isn't there. I | think I understand your suggestion now (CRAN should test with no | Suggested packages present, not with all of them present). That is less | work than they currently do. And have Suggests:'ed package tested conditionally. Whether their tests execute will be in the control of the one running the tests because he can make use the optionality provided by Suggests: Either install, or don't. So it can be the same tests as now. But better. Because "choice". | I disagree with your suggestion for two reasons. | | 1. I think it would lead to less effective testing. Nope. See above. | 2. It would be disruptive during the transition. How to get from here to there is left as an exercise to the reader. The mostly-wasteful discussion has left me less than motivated to work on this as there is just so much misunderstanding and blockage. We could work all this out during a hackathon day. Over email, alas, things don't seem to work too well.
Okay, I'll drop out now too. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
