Re: [Bioc-devel] version increments for unchanged packages

2015-06-11 Thread Hervé Pagès
On 06/11/2015 11:50 AM, Hervé Pagès wrote: Hi Stephanie, On 06/11/2015 11:33 AM, Gabe Becker wrote: Stephanie, As far as I know, it is so that package versions are unique to specific releases of bioconductor. This has the benefits of 1. providing assurances that that particular version of

Re: [Bioc-devel] version increments for unchanged packages

2015-06-11 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi Stephanie, On 06/11/2015 11:33 AM, Gabe Becker wrote: Stephanie, As far as I know, it is so that package versions are unique to specific releases of bioconductor. This has the benefits of 1. providing assurances that that particular version of a package is tested and confirmed to wo

Re: [Bioc-devel] version increments for unchanged packages

2015-06-11 Thread Gabe Becker
Stephanie, As far as I know, it is so that package versions are unique to specific releases of bioconductor. This has the benefits of 1. providing assurances that that particular version of a package is tested and confirmed to work within that release, and 2. enforces that the source cod

[Bioc-devel] version increments for unchanged packages

2015-06-11 Thread Stephanie M. Gogarten
Why is it that packages with no changes still get new version numbers at every release? For example, my experiment data package GWASdata has not changed since the last release, but the version was bumped from 1.4.0 to 1.6.0. I imagine most users expect that a change in version number indicates