On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Jeroen Ooms <jeroen.o...@stat.ucla.edu> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joshua Ulrich <josh.m.ulr...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> So implementation isn't a problem. The problem is that you need a way >> to force people not to be able to use different package versions than >> what existed at the time of each R release. I said this in my >> previous email, but you removed and did not address it: "However, you >> would need to find a way to actively _prevent_ people from installing >> newer versions of packages with the stable R releases." Frankly, I >> would stop using CRAN if this policy were adopted. > > I am not proposing to "force" anything to anyone, those are your > words. Please read the proposal more carefully before derailing the > discussion. Below *verbatim* a section from the paper: > <snip>
Yes "force" is too strong a word. You want a barrier (however small) to prevent people from installing newer (or older) versions of packages than those that correspond to a given R release. I still think you're going to have a very hard time convincing CRAN maintainers to take up your cause, even if you were to build support for it. Especially because there's nothing stopping anyone else from doing it. -- Joshua Ulrich | about.me/joshuaulrich FOSS Trading | www.fosstrading.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
