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From: "Steffen Neumann" <sneumann at ipb-halle.de> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>, "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel at r-project.org> Sent: Monday, April 4, 2016 11:04:27 PM Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Bioconductor 3.3 release schedule has been updated to reflect R release delay
Hi, On Mo, 2016-04-04 at 12:00 -0700, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
Accordingly, Bioconductor has updated its release schedule: https://bioconductor.org/developers/release-schedule/
Thanks for the notification.
[...] The reason for the delay in R's release schedule is the new Windows toolchain and the need to make sure all packages install, build, and check against this toolchain (as has been discussed on bioc-devel
I have to say that I always have been perplexed by late changes in the BioC toolchain. In most big projects I know, the toolchain is the first thing that will get selected/frozen, so that the remaining development cycle can depend on it.
To clarify, this toolchain is being adopted by R and CRAN. Bioconductor needs to support it since our next release will use R-3.3.0 which is going to use this toolchain. The scheduling was not our decision or choice. Once before this toolchain was being considered (I think it was in 2013) and then R or CRAN decided it wasn't ready for prime time. Again, we followed their lead because we have to use the same toolchain. (There is no such thing as a "BioC toolchain".) As far as I know, 2013 and now are the only times the toolchain has changed in such a major way that introduced backward incompatibility (at least since I started in 2010). Dan
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