Sorry - not iplot, but igraph. On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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 > > -- 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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