[Bioc-devel] Noticed change of version for some packages in BioC 3.2

From: "Stefano Berri" <sberri at illumina.com>
To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>, "Bernd Klaus" <bernd.klaus at embl.de>
Cc: "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel at r-project.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 2:20:12 AM
Subject: RE: [Bioc-devel] Noticed change of version for some packages in BioC 3.2

Thank you very much for the info.

I didn't realised bug fixes and versions changes were allowed in release. And it
is good to know in a month 3.2 will be frozen forever.

Do you then have a strategy to suggest for automating download and install
packages in a very reproducible way? Am I right that if I leave package
installation to R it won't be all that reproducible, especially when dependency
relies on CRAN packages?

cheers

Stefano


  

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Tenenbaum [mailto:dtenenba at fredhutch.org]
Sent: 01 March 2016 16:01
To: Bernd Klaus
Cc: Berri, Stefano; bioc-devel
Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Noticed change of version for some packages in
BioC 3.2

The main reason for packages to change in release is because of bug fixes,
also documentation enhancements.

You should not expect the versions in release to be frozen.
Dan


----- Original Message -----

From: "Bernd Klaus" <bernd.klaus at embl.de>
To: "Stefano Berri" <sberri at illumina.com>, "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel at r-

project.org>

Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 3:48:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Noticed change of version for some packages in

BioC 3.2

Hi Stefano,

developers are not supposed to change the package fundamentally in the
release branch, however small fixes are allowed to be back-ported and
marked by a bump of the last digit:

http://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/version-numbering/

(E.g. fixing typos in the vignette or updating the citation
information)
As far as I know, only the url


http://bioconductor.org/pckages/<packageName>

is stable.


Best wishes,

Bernd