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Date: 2019-03-27T15:05:31Z
From: Vincent Carey
Subject: [Bioc-devel] package RBGL requires CRAN dependency on devel branch
In-Reply-To: <CAC2h7uvNasReMZuFnH4b=Nr2xXAdrYNtPoJbEQi8omP1jHRyGw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 9:05 AM Kasper Daniel Hansen <
kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 1:06 AM Aaron Lun <
> infinite.monkeys.with.keyboards at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > well, we can't fix this in old branches of Bioc.
> >
> > Sure, but one could say that about breaking changes to any CRAN package.
> > Nothing particularly special about BH on that point.
> >
>
> Indeed, and this has been my position for a number of years. Having said
> that, dynamic linking / headers in my experience increase the chance of
> breaking and it is usually a kind of breakage which requires substantial
> insight to fix (as opposed to say changing the order / naming of arguments
> in an R function, which is really easy to diagnose even if you know nothing
> about the package).
>
Definitely.
I started a channel on slack to continue this discussion. #containers
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