On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 06:27:24AM +0100, Michael Creel wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Thomas Weber
> <thomas.weber.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 10:12:10AM +0100, Michael Creel wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >> Would there be objection to my moving samin and bfgsmin from optim to
> >> econometrics? It's not the natural location, but econometrics depends
> >> on those two functions, and moving them will allow me to make releases
> >> of econometrics independently when releases of optim are made.
> >
> > I don't quite understand. Do you need to change the two functions?
> >
> > BTW, there was a short mention of PelicanHPC in the 03/10 issue of the
> > German Linux Magazin. I guess congratulations are in order.
> >
> > Thomas
> >
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> Occasionally, yes, I make changes, though by now both bfgsmin and
> samin are pretty stable. If I put them in econmetrics, then I know
> that they will be up to date when I make a release of the econometrics
> package.
Yes, but that sort of defeats the purpose of the packages. I see several
possible problems here:
1) You change the interface of one the functions. This might be good for
you, but other users will have to change their code to cope with the new
interface.
2) In order to get these functions, they need to install a package they
don't care at all about.
> It seems to me that the optim package may not get regular releases. If
> released versions of optim and econometrics get out of sync, problems
> could occur.
Yes, but that's problem number 1). Fixed for you, but a problem on other
users.
Thomas
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