I think we should have a CRAN snapshot (or a subset of CRAN used in Bioc)
inside each Bioc release; I don't know how hard that is to manage from a
technical point of view.

Best,
Kasper


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Julian Gehring <julian.gehring@embl.de>wrote:

> 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.
>>
>
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