[Bioc-devel] exp. data, updates

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen
<kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just changed the class definition for a core class in bsseq.  A
> supporting experiment data package, bsseqData, contains two objects of this
> core class and now it needs to be updated (specifically because the
> example() contains a command which prints the object and this printing now
> fails).
>
> I can update the bsseqData package, but do I mess with earlier releases
> when I do this? I am uncertain because the /data is stored in another
> repository. How should I handle this?
>

The experiment data repository does not branch, so you could do something like:

DESCRIPTION:
Imports: BiocInstaller

NAMESPACE:
import(BiocInstaller)

Code:

if (BiocInstaller:::BIOC_VERSION == "2.12")
   # do things the old way
else
  # do things the new way

Dan



> Best,
> Kasper
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