Re: [R-pkg-devel] Semantic versioning and maintenance releases

2017-10-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 16:45:22 -0400 From: Duncan Murdoch mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>> To: Shivaram Venkataraman mailto:shivaram.venkatara...@gmail.com>>, Ben          Bolker mailto:bbol...@gmail.com>> Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org <ma

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Semantic versioning and maintenance releases

2017-10-26 Thread Shivaram Venkataraman
1.7.0 to CRAN and > ask > >> his users to update to that version to get the patch. There should be > no > >> downside of having the other changes to 'yourpackage'. If, on the other > >> hand, 'yourpackage' has changed from 1.6 to 1.7 so much th

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Semantic versioning and maintenance releases

2017-10-26 Thread Bruce Hoff
>> his users to update to that version to get the patch. There should be no >> downside of having the other changes to 'yourpackage'. If, on the other >> hand, 'yourpackage' has changed from 1.6 to 1.7 so much that it computes >> different resul

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Semantic versioning and maintenance releases

2017-10-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
rent package name ('yourpackage-2'). In that case CRAN should allow both packages to exist side-by-side in the repository. Cheers, Bruce Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 16:45:22 -0400 From: Duncan Murdoch To: Shivaram Venkataraman , Ben Bolker Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org Subjec

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Semantic versioning and maintenance releases

2017-10-26 Thread Bruce Hoff
then perhaps it should be published under a different package name ('yourpackage-2'). In that case CRAN should allow both packages to exist side-by-side in the repository. Cheers, Bruce Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 16:45:22 -0400 From: Duncan Murdoch To: Shivaram Venkataraman , Ben

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Semantic versioning and maintenance releases

2017-10-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 25/10/2017 4:28 PM, Shivaram Venkataraman wrote: Thanks for all the replies. I can see that the monotonic ordering is in-built to support the latest / best version model that CRAN has. That said it would be great if the policy could be relaxed to allow uploading older versions which don't nece

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Semantic versioning and maintenance releases

2017-10-25 Thread Shivaram Venkataraman
Thanks for all the replies. I can see that the monotonic ordering is in-built to support the latest / best version model that CRAN has. That said it would be great if the policy could be relaxed to allow uploading older versions which don't necessarily become the "best" version. Then we could ask u

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Semantic versioning and maintenance releases

2017-10-25 Thread Ben Bolker
On 17-10-25 03:47 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 25/10/2017 2:23 PM, Shivaram Venkataraman wrote: >> Hello >> >> We have an R package that uses semantic versioning -- i.e. version >> numbers >> are of the form major_version.minor_version.patch_version >> >> One of the ways we use the patch_versio

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Semantic versioning and maintenance releases

2017-10-25 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 25 October 2017 at 11:23, Shivaram Venkataraman wrote: | Hello | | We have an R package that uses semantic versioning -- i.e. version numbers | are of the form major_version.minor_version.patch_version | | One of the ways we use the patch_versions is to make maintenance releases | or security

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Semantic versioning and maintenance releases

2017-10-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 25/10/2017 2:23 PM, Shivaram Venkataraman wrote: Hello We have an R package that uses semantic versioning -- i.e. version numbers are of the form major_version.minor_version.patch_version One of the ways we use the patch_versions is to make maintenance releases or security fixes that users c