On Mon, 2021-03-08 at 21:04 -0800, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > One related question: we tend to have a 1-year deprecation policy with > Sage, and some could argue that removing R will break use of Sage that uses > the R interface. Should removing the R package from standard be subject to > this deprecation policy or at least a shorter one (6 months)? >
If you happen to be on one of the platforms where R still works, you can still install the optional package (or better yet, install R using your package manager) to retain all of the old functionality. If you're on one of the platforms where R is currently broken, nothing is lost with respect to the new release. We're also still stuck on an old version of R that has a security vulnerability in CVE-2020-27637. It's a silly one, but distributions are generally going to be working to eliminate the vulnerable versions in favor or newer ones -- and this happens constantly. Keeping an old version as a standard package in cases like that can force people to install an insecure version of the package in addition to the secure version they already have installed. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/682ebfafbc98f15a9cc0935e44266048268fcbac.camel%40orlitzky.com.
