Re: [Bioc-devel] name for new BioC package

2023-02-10 Thread Wolfgang Huber
Hi Kevin & all I guess there are two basic scenarios: - PKG2 is a plug-in replacement for PKG. In this case the API should change as little as possible. PKG should be deprecated. One can even argue whether the name change is necessary. (It may be opportune for reasons of credit / assignment of

Re: [Bioc-devel] name for new BioC package

2023-02-07 Thread Martin Morgan
that were no longer relevant. Martin From: Bioc-devel on behalf of Matteo Tiberti Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 6:54 AM To: Kevin Coombes , Herv� Pag�s Cc: bioc-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] name for new BioC package Dear all, thanks for your input just to answer on

Re: [Bioc-devel] name for new BioC package

2023-02-07 Thread Matteo Tiberti
; From: Kevin Coombes Sent: 04 February 2023 14:26 To: Hervé Pagès Cc: Matteo Tiberti ; bioc-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] name for new BioC package For the record, as a user, I *hated* the move from MOFA to MOFA2. Not the new package nam

Re: [Bioc-devel] name for new BioC package

2023-02-04 Thread Kevin Coombes
For the record, as a user, I *hated* the move from MOFA to MOFA2. Not the new package name, but the fact that they also Schanged all the function names and argument names. Mostly, they switched from using periods to underscores. But this meant having to tediously hand-edit every script that used M

Re: [Bioc-devel] name for new BioC package

2023-02-03 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi Matteo. We had DESeq2 after DESeq, Rbowtie2 after Rbowtie, MOFA2 after MOFA, etc.. so I don't see any problem, but thanks for asking! Best, H. On 03/02/2023 00:08, Matteo Tiberti wrote: dear maintainers, I am currently listed as maintainer of Bioconductor package MoonlightR, designed f

Re: [Bioc-devel] name for new BioC package

2023-02-03 Thread Laurent Gatto
Dear Matteo, Not a direct answer to your question, but here's another angle to it, from a software development perspective. Once Moonlight2R will be available, would you consider MoonlightR to still be a viable alternative? If not, then you should also plan the deprecation of MoonlightR. In th