On 09/15/2010 01:55 AM, Kurt Hornik wrote:
Martin Maechler writes:
Hi Henrik
"HB" == Henrik Bengtsson<h...@stat.berkeley.edu>
on Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:26:31 -0700 writes:
HB> Hi,
HB> in R CMD check, the version of the package being checked is reported, e.g.
HB> Thu Sep 9 05:02:30 2010: Checking package R.utils (SVN revision 399) ...
HB> * using log directory ‘/srv/R/R.check/R-devel/PKGS/R.utils.Rcheck’
HB> * using R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-09-07 r52876)
HB> * using platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
HB> * using session charset: UTF-8
HB> * checking for file ‘R.utils/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
HB> * this is package ‘R.utils’ version ‘1.5.2’
HB> ...
HB> I'd like to request/suggest that the 'Date' in the DESCRIPTION file is
HB> also added, e.g.
HB> * this is package ‘R.utils’ version ‘1.5.2’ ('2010-09-14')
HB> WHY?
HB> This would be particular useful when you work toward sites like
HB> R-forge and Bioconductor when you may commit your day's work on
HB> package when you update the 'Date' but you do not really want to
HB> update the 'Version' because you're going to put in more work
HB> tomorrow. With the 'Date' information you'll be able to see what
HB> "version" of your updates have been checked by the servers. I
HB> understand that this may be an odd process to follow even for devel
HB> branches and you may argue that you should always bump the version
HB> number whenever you do an SVN commit (e.g. '1.5.2.1' for temporary
HB> commits). Either way, I find it useful to see the date as well.
I agree that this is useful.
Of course, for all those cases, where there's no "Date:",
nothing (i.e. no "()") should be written.
If you (or someone) provide patches against R-devel
( https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/ )
and they pass 'make check-all', I'd add this feature.
But pls not against the Date field by default:
R-Forge packages record their revision in their package metadata.
CRAN packages record Date/Publication in their metadata.
Not sure about BioC ...
For BioC packages, I look at the svn revision number displayed
on the build/check report so I know exactly which version of my
package was built/checked:
http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/2.7/bioc-LATEST/
But I can see Henrik's point to not depend on what a particular
build system does and to have this kind of feature incorporated
in 'R CMD check' itself.
Cheers,
H.
-k
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