[Bioc-devel] inquiry about possibility of package name change

[Zhu, Lihua (Julie)]

Thanks Martin!

Best,

Julie

> On Jul 1, 2016, at 10:28 PM, Martin Morgan <martin.morgan at roswellpark.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/01/2016 10:45 AM, Zhu, Lihua (Julie) wrote:
>> Martin,
>> 
>> The lab, who developed the GUIDE-seq protocol, just published a python
>> tool called guideseq in Nature Biotechnology, which is too similar to
>> our Bioconductor package name GUIDEseq.
>> 
>> I am wondering if  there is an easy way to change the package name, or
>> perhaps give it an alias to point to the same package.  Thanks!
> 
> Changing package names is strongly discouraged, since the internet tends to have a strong memory. However, the recommended approach is like deprecating a function, as described at
> 
>  http://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/deprecation/
> 
> In the current devel, we would clone your current code base to XXX, and add
> 
>    .onLoad <- function(...) {
>        warning("Package 'GUIDEseq' is deprecated, use package 'XXX'")
>    }
> 
> in the next devel cycle, you'd change that to
> 
>    .onLoad <- function(...) {
>        stop("Package 'GUIDEseq' is defunct, use package 'XXX'")
>    }
> 
> and remove all code other code / documentation from GUIDEseq. In the devel cycle after that, we'd remove GUIDEseq from the manifest.
> 
> Your users would see the deprecation warning after the next release (October?) and would have to switch by the release after that (March?).
> 
> Martin
> 
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Julie
> 
> 
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