On 08/03/2012 11:44 PM, peter dalgaard wrote:
On Aug 4, 2012, at 01:24 , Hervé Pagès wrote:
BTW, it's funny that the VERSION file in the R source tree says:
hpages@latitude:~/src/R-2.16.r59963$ cat VERSION
2.16.0 Under development (unstable)
^^^^^^
What's funny about that? We no longer display the number on startup and at some point we may
not even use it for an actual release, but there needs to be a number to test "R >=
2.14.0"-style dependencies and such.
What's funny is that even if we try to pretend that the version
number doesn't matter, it actually does matter. Not only for
"R >= 2.14.0"-style dependencies and such, but also for human communication:
- Can't install that package!
- Works for me. What version of R are you using?
- "Unsuffered Consequences"
- I'm using "Roasted Marshmallows", you should upgrade to
that one.
- I'm confused I thought I was running the latest.
- No "Roasted Marshmallows" is the latest.
- Are you sure? How do you know?
etc, etc...
It reminds me of Mozilla plans to hide Firefox version:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678775
AFAIK they finally abandoned it :-)
H.
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