On 18 April 2019 at 10:37, Steven Scott wrote: | My Boom package makes a C++ library available to package authors (mainly | me). The wrapped library is used outside of R and must comply with | external style rules such as UseLongDescriptiveNames, and files must be | named for the class they contain. From time to time a | LongDescriptiveFileName, when paired with its full directory path, exceeds | 100 characters. | | This creates a conflict with CRAN's rules about long file names, which | stems from tar. I'm wondering what this community thinks about asking for | that rule to be relaxed. Both gnu tar and posix tar now allow unlimited | length filenames, and the ustar format allows names up to 256 characters. | | I'm interested in the opinions of people on this list about whether this | rule has outlived its usefulness. Thanks.
There are no "opinions". There is CRAN Repo Policy. The BH package your Boom depends upon is actually named BH in part because having a two-letter name shrunk the set of files violating this very constraint. Yet at every release I still get to renamed one file, and update one include statement. All documented in the ChangeLog. So I would change the filenames, and move on. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
