[R-pkg-devel] Handling Not-Always-Needed Dependencies?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 03/08/2016 9:15 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> On 3 August 2016 at 17:35, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> | No, you are reading something into my messages that isn't there.  I
> | think I understand your suggestion now (CRAN should test with no
> | Suggested packages present, not with all of them present).  That is less
> | work than they currently do.
>
> And have Suggests:'ed package tested conditionally.  Whether their tests
> execute will be in the control of the one running the tests because he can
> make use the optionality provided by Suggests: Either install, or don't.
>
> So it can be the same tests as now.  But better. Because "choice".
>
> | I disagree with your suggestion for two reasons.
> |
> | 1. I think it would lead to less effective testing.
>
> Nope. See above.
>
> | 2. It would be disruptive during the transition.
>
> How to get from here to there is left as an exercise to the reader.
>
> The mostly-wasteful discussion has left me less than motivated to work on
> this as there is just so much misunderstanding and blockage.  We could work
> all this out during a hackathon day.  Over email, alas, things don't seem to
> work too well.
>

Okay, I'll drop out now too.

Duncan Murdoch