[Bioc-devel] DT CRAN vs github versions

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Laurent Gatto" <lg390 at cam.ac.uk>
> To: "Gabe Becker" <becker.gabe at gene.com>
> Cc: "Lisa Breckels" <lms79 at cam.ac.uk>, "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel at r-project.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 4:59:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] DT CRAN vs github versions

> On 11 March 2016 00:41, Gabe Becker wrote:
> 
>> Laurent,
>>
>> I'd argue quite strongly against this from a systems perspective. Your
>> package wouldn't be installable via biocLite. That function can see github
>> repos, but only when told to and not as dependencies AFAIK. A package
>> passing but being uninstsllable would be a Very Bad Thing (tm) IMHO.
>>

You are right and that's why it's not going to happen.

>> You do have my sympathies though, I'm blocked by a gh only patch in
>> BatchJobs and have been for months.
> 
> Yes, I do agree with you, of course. I just though I would bring the
> situation up, and see if someone had a good suggestion.
> 
> I suspect similar ones will creep up more and more in the future.

My suggestion is to ask the DT maintainer to submit their new version to CRAN.

Dan



> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Laurent
> 
>> Best,
>> ~G
>> On Mar 10, 2016 4:22 PM, "Laurent Gatto" <lg390 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> There have been some substantial changes in Rstudio's DT package
>>> recently [1], in particular with respect to selecting rows in a
>>> table. One problem is that these updates currently only live on github
>>> (version 0.1.45) while CRAN is stuck at version 0.1 since September
>>> 2015. This has been reported in an issue [2] in October 2015, but it is
>>> not clear when these updates will be pushed to CRAN.
>>>
>>> One of my packages [3] currently fails because of this unmet
>>> dependency. I believe that others (well, at least one Bioc developer) is
>>> also waiting for an update. I was wondering if upgrading to the github
>>> version on the Bioconductor build servers would be considered - while I
>>> haven't done any systematic tests, I have not experienced any backwards
>>> incompatibilities.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Laurent
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/rstudio/DT
>>> [2] https://github.com/rstudio/DT/issues/191
>>> [3] http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc-LATEST/pRolocGUI/
>>>
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> 
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