[Bioc-devel] compare generics

[Laurent Gatto]

On 11 April 2014 01:19, Hervé Pagès <hpages at fhcrc.org> wrote:

> Hi Laurent,
>
> On 04/09/2014 12:36 PM, Laurent Gatto wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> What are your thoughts about adding a new generic to BiocGenerics:
>>
>>   setGeneric("compare", function(x, y, ...) setGeneric("compare"))
>>
>> I have spotted a couple of existing cases on CRAN (lava (S3) and NMF
>> (S4) with signature function(object, ...)) and CMA::compare (with a very
>> different signature) on Bioc (maintainer cc'ed).
>
> I could do that but that would help only if the CRAN package agrees
> to depend on BiocGenerics, which is unlikely. (I can see how a CRAN
> maintainer could be reluctant to depend on a BioC package.)
>
> Even with BiocGenerics around, it's hard to avoid this kind of clash.

Indeed. There are so many compareFoo, compareBar, ... that I thought a
generics would have made sense. But I appreciate that introducing it
would be quite disruptive. I suppose I will make my own compareBaz then.

Thanks.

Laurent

> H.
>
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Laurent
>>
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