[Bioc-devel] experiment data package versioning

[Laurent Gatto]

On 30 October 2014 17:43, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Laurent Gatto <lg390 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I was under the (wrong) impression that experiment data packages would
>> be following the same versioning convention as software with even/odd
>> for release/devel branches.
>>
>> Would this be something that others would find useful?
>
> Bumping versions of data packages would results in very large amounts
> of download at every Bioc release, even if there's no actual update to
> the data packages.  I'd vote "not a good idea" on this one.

Good point.

But versions are bumped (I think) - two non-random examples:

 Bioc3.0/AffymetrixDataTestFiles has version 0.3.1
 Bioc3.1/AffymetrixDataTestFiles has version 0.4.0

 Bioc3.0/pRolocdata has version 1.3.5
 Bioc3.1/pRolocdata has version 1.3.6

Laurent

> /Henrik
>
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Laurent
>>
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