----- Original Message ----- > From: "Henrik Bengtsson" <h...@biostat.ucsf.edu> > To: "Laurent Gatto" <lg...@cam.ac.uk> > Cc: bioc-devel@r-project.org > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:43:11 AM > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] experiment data package versioning > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Laurent Gatto <lg...@cam.ac.uk> > wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I was under the (wrong) impression that experiment data packages > > would > > be following the same versioning convention as software with > > even/odd > > for release/devel branches. > > > > Would this be something that others would find useful? > > Bumping versions of data packages would results in very large amounts > of download at every Bioc release, even if there's no actual update > to > the data packages. I'd vote "not a good idea" on this one. >
Well, we do bump the experiment packages at release time. Just not the middle (y) segment of the x.y.z version number. We bump z twice, first before creating the release branch, secondly in trunk after the branch is created. Dan > /Henrik > > > > > Best wishes, > > > > Laurent > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel