Hi,
For most problems discussed here, it seems that having a fixed version
of package is sufficient rather than a specific version. If the idea of
a snapshot with each bioc release would work (which still means one
version per package), so would requiring that version within the package
(one would just need to agree which version this is).
Best wishes
Julian
what if two Bioc packages require different version of the ‘same’ CRAN package?
AfaIu, the infrastructure is not designed to deal with multiple versions of a
package.
Nor would I as a user expect to have less-than-the-most recent versions of CRAN
packages in my library just because some other package says so…
Just to throw in another, and probably silly suggestion: the Bioconductor
repository could keep ‘snapshots’ of CRAN packages compatible with each
release, but they would have to be name-mangled in some way. The potential for
confusion is enormous.
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