Dear R developers, (http://bugs.r-project.org/ seems to be down, so I am writing a feature request here.)
It would be great to allow semantic version numbers for packages. See http://semver.org/ for details. The problem I am having is that I am setting up a nightly build server, and there is no easy way to create a version number for builds that are in between releases. Ideally I would use something like TAG+DIST.HASH TAG is the last tag of the git branch, usually something like MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, DIST is the number of commits since the last release and HASH is the first seven letters of the git hash for the commit. E.g. 0.7.0-pre+518.badcafe Right now instead of this I am forced to use something like 0.6.999.518 which is a lot less expressive and there is no (easy) way to include the branch information. Thanks, Best Regards, Gabor [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
