Le dimanche 24 août 2014 à 16:29 +0200, meik michalke a écrit : > Am Sonntag, 24. August 2014, 12:35:16 schrieb Milan Bouchet-Valat: > > Breaking the API because of a silly WARNING does not seem like the best > > option to me. > > i totally agree. but when it comes to keeping something on CRAN, even a silly > WARNING can shut the door. i really admire the quality management they keep > up > there, but the zero tolerance for even the slightest deviation is sometimes a > bit too harsh, for my taste. i had to withdraw roxyPackage from CRAN because > of such a stupid problem.[*] Fully agreed. That's also why I prefer solution a) - solution c) is far too risky. ;-)
> viele grüße :: m.eik > > > [*] roxyPackage calls tools:::news2Rd() to create NEWS.Rd files -- which is > exactly what the manual on news() tells administrators to do. i however was > told not to use unexported ::: functions. but to my knowledge there is no > other way to do this job. so i asked them to solve this by exporting that > particular function in the tools package instead; i mean, if they *want* you > to use it, why not export it already? but they did not like the idea, and i > was not willing to lose the functionality i was able to implement by using > the > NEWS.Rd file (especially the RSS feed). apart from that, i find it > infuriating > that packages are being blocked if the ship a copy of the GPL in their > sources. ...and that we were asked to update our BSD-licensed packages to include a LICENSE file just to mention the copyright holders, which is redundant with the Copyright field in DESCRIPTION. ;-) Regards ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ RKWard-devel mailing list RKWard-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkward-devel