On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 17:07 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On 06/03/2009 12:50 PM, Martyn Plummer wrote: > > > For R, there is no difference between "-" and "." in package version > > numbers. Here is what the R Extension manual says: > > > > "The version is a sequence of at least two (and usually three) > > non-negative integers separated by single ‘.’ or ‘-’ characters. The > > canonical form is as shown in the example [0.5-1 - Martyn], and a > > version such as ‘0.01’ or ‘0.01.0’ will be handled as if it were > > ‘0.1-0’." > > > > So you should just replace dashes with dots. > > Based on that, I'd say we should be embedding the whole version (with > dot, not dash). Pretty much every R package is going to need to be fixed > for this, include the core R. I'd also propose that we put a small note on the packaging guidelines :) Thanks all, Pierre _______________________________________________ Fedora-r-devel-list mailing list Fedora-r-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-r-devel-list
