>>>>> Martin Maechler writes: > Hi Henrik >>>>> "HB" == Henrik Bengtsson <h...@stat.berkeley.edu> >>>>> on Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:26:31 -0700 writes:
HB> Hi, HB> in R CMD check, the version of the package being checked is reported, e.g. HB> Thu Sep 9 05:02:30 2010: Checking package R.utils (SVN revision 399) ... HB> * using log directory ‘/srv/R/R.check/R-devel/PKGS/R.utils.Rcheck’ HB> * using R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-09-07 r52876) HB> * using platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) HB> * using session charset: UTF-8 HB> * checking for file ‘R.utils/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK HB> * this is package ‘R.utils’ version ‘1.5.2’ HB> ... HB> I'd like to request/suggest that the 'Date' in the DESCRIPTION file is HB> also added, e.g. HB> * this is package ‘R.utils’ version ‘1.5.2’ ('2010-09-14') HB> WHY? HB> This would be particular useful when you work toward sites like HB> R-forge and Bioconductor when you may commit your day's work on HB> package when you update the 'Date' but you do not really want to HB> update the 'Version' because you're going to put in more work HB> tomorrow. With the 'Date' information you'll be able to see what HB> "version" of your updates have been checked by the servers. I HB> understand that this may be an odd process to follow even for devel HB> branches and you may argue that you should always bump the version HB> number whenever you do an SVN commit (e.g. '1.5.2.1' for temporary HB> commits). Either way, I find it useful to see the date as well. > I agree that this is useful. > Of course, for all those cases, where there's no "Date:", > nothing (i.e. no "()") should be written. > If you (or someone) provide patches against R-devel > ( https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/ ) > and they pass 'make check-all', I'd add this feature. But pls not against the Date field by default: R-Forge packages record their revision in their package metadata. CRAN packages record Date/Publication in their metadata. Not sure about BioC ... -k ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel