On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Gábor Csárdi <csa...@rmki.kfki.hu> wrote:
> Dear R developers, > > I am seeking advice on some $subject matter. > > My package will have an update soon, that is not backward compatible > with the current version. It will likely break much of the existing > code. Many (~50) packages depend on 'igraph' and they, too, will most > probably break with the new version. > Don't forget the indirect dependencies - might be many more. One approach used by e.g. ggplot and roxygen, is to call the new package ggplot2 or roxygen2. This would not break old packages. > My intended solution is, that I create a snapshot of the current > package, under another name (igraph0), and ask package maintainers to > depend on that version. Then, after a short time, I'll update the > current igraph version. > I would rather give the new one a a new name by appending the 2 > Do you see any drawbacks of this solution? Is there some existing > practice for situations like this? Suggestions are greatly > appreciated. > Well - they require immediate action by the package maintainers. Yo could put a warning in the original iplot package, that the package is not updated any more and that a switch to iplot 2 is suggested. So no immediate action by the package maintainers is required. Cheers, Rainer > Btw. an alternative would be to ask them to depend on the exact > current version of the package. This is an easier solution, but it > won't give people the opportunity to load both versions of the package > at the same time, if they want to run their old code. > > Thank You, Best Regards, > Gabor > > -- > Gabor Csardi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> Dept. Statistics, Harvard University > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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