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 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. Best wishes, Laurent > Best, > ~G > On Mar 10, 2016 4:22 PM, "Laurent Gatto" <[email protected]> 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/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >> -- Laurent Gatto | @lgatt0 http://cpu.sysbiol.cam.ac.uk/ http://lgatto.github.io/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
