[Bioc-devel] seqnames as a candidate for BiocGenerics

[Hervé Pagès]

Hi Nico,

On 04/26/2015 09:58 AM, Nicolas Delhomme wrote:
> Hej Hervé (I guess)!
>
> Could it be possible to move the generic from "seqnames" and "seqnames<-" from GenomeInfoDb to BiocGenerics? I would then deprecate the "seq_name" and "seq_name<-" functions of the genomeIntervals package and import them in the easyRNASeq package.

I guess I could.

However I want to make it clear that a generic function doesn't have
to go to BiocGenerics before it can be shared across packages. There
are situations where this kind of move actually helps to resolve
conflicts but it doesn't seem to be the case here. Any reason why
you can't just import GenomeInfoDb? This is what all the packages that
need the "seqnames" and "seqnames<-" generics currently do. Moving
these generics to BiocGenerics will likely break many of them.

Thanks,
H.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Nico
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