[Bioc-devel] r+w permissions in release branches

[Julian Gehring]

Hi,

For most problems discussed here, it seems that having a fixed version 
of package is sufficient rather than a specific version.  If the idea of 
a snapshot with each bioc release would work (which still means one 
version per package), so would requiring that version within the package 
(one would just need to agree which version this is).

Best wishes
Julian


> what if two Bioc packages require different version of the ‘same’ CRAN package?
> AfaIu, the infrastructure is not designed to deal with multiple versions of a package.
>
> Nor would I as a user expect to have less-than-the-most recent versions of CRAN packages in my library just because some other package says so…
>
> Just to throw in another, and probably silly suggestion: the Bioconductor repository could keep ‘snapshots’ of CRAN packages compatible with each release, but they would have to be name-mangled in some way. The potential for confusion is enormous.