----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steffen Neumann" <[email protected]> > To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <[email protected]>, "bioc-devel" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, April 4, 2016 11:04:27 PM > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Bioconductor 3.3 release schedule has been updated > to reflect R release delay
> Hi, > > On Mo, 2016-04-04 at 12:00 -0700, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: >> Accordingly, Bioconductor has updated its release schedule: >> https://bioconductor.org/developers/release-schedule/ > > Thanks for the notification. >> [...] >> The reason for the delay in R's release schedule is the new Windows >> toolchain and the need to make sure all packages install, build, and >> check against this toolchain (as has been discussed on bioc-devel > > I have to say that I always have been perplexed by late changes > in the BioC toolchain. In most big projects I know, > the toolchain is the first thing that will get selected/frozen, > so that the remaining development cycle can depend on it. To clarify, this toolchain is being adopted by R and CRAN. Bioconductor needs to support it since our next release will use R-3.3.0 which is going to use this toolchain. The scheduling was not our decision or choice. Once before this toolchain was being considered (I think it was in 2013) and then R or CRAN decided it wasn't ready for prime time. Again, we followed their lead because we have to use the same toolchain. (There is no such thing as a "BioC toolchain".) As far as I know, 2013 and now are the only times the toolchain has changed in such a major way that introduced backward incompatibility (at least since I started in 2010). Dan > > Yours, > Steffen > > -- > IPB Halle AG Massenspektrometrie & Bioinformatik > Dr. Steffen Neumann http://www.IPB-Halle.DE > Weinberg 3 http://msbi.bic-gh.de > 06120 Halle Tel. +49 (0) 345 5582 - 1470 > +49 (0) 345 5582 - 0 > sneumann(at)IPB-Halle.DE Fax. +49 (0) 345 5582 - 1409 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
