Dear R developers, I am seeking advice on some $subject matter.
My package will have an update soon, that is not backward compatible with the current version. It will likely break much of the existing code. Many (~50) packages depend on 'igraph' and they, too, will most probably break with the new version. My intended solution is, that I create a snapshot of the current package, under another name (igraph0), and ask package maintainers to depend on that version. Then, after a short time, I'll update the current igraph version. Do you see any drawbacks of this solution? Is there some existing practice for situations like this? Suggestions are greatly appreciated. Btw. an alternative would be to ask them to depend on the exact current version of the package. This is an easier solution, but it won't give people the opportunity to load both versions of the package at the same time, if they want to run their old code. Thank You, Best Regards, Gabor -- Gabor Csardi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> Dept. Statistics, Harvard University ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
