Heh, you just described BioC --t
> On Mar 20, 2014, at 7:15 PM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:45 PM, William Dunlap <wdun...@tibco.com> wrote: > >>> In particular, updating a package with many reverse dependencies is a >>> frustrating process, for everybody. As a maintainer with ~150 reverse >>> dependencies, I think not twice, but ten times if I really want to >> publish >>> a new version on CRAN. >> >> It might be easier if more of those packages came with good test suites. > > Test suites are great, but I don't think this would make my job easier. > More tests means more potential breakage. The extreme of not having any > examples and tests in these 150 packages would be the easiest for _me_, > actually. Not for the users, though..... > > What would really help is either fully versioned package dependencies > (daydreaming here), or having a CRAN-devel repository, that changes and > might break often, and a CRAN-stable that does not change (much). > > Gabor > > [...] > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
