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[Bioc-devel] package RBGL requires CRAN dependency on devel branch

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 10:57 AM Kasper Daniel Hansen <
kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:

            
These are good points.  In this particular case I believe that Boost Graph
Library evolves very slowly and
backwards compatibility is not endangered.  It is an early component of
Boost.  On the other hand, BH has
no obligation to provide the graph (BGL) headers, and I believe that in
early incarnations of BH, some headers
needed for RBGL were not there.  So there are maintenance vulnerabilities
to this approach, but I think it is better
if we stick with the maintained BH as long as this works.  Should this
approach fail (and your scenario of
CRAN package changes breaking bioc must be kept in mind) we can go back to
tarball distribution if necessary.