[Seqinr-commits] r1464 - pkg/inst/doc/src/appendix

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Author: lobry
Date: 2008-10-08 20:59:31 +0200 (Wed, 08 Oct 2008)
New Revision: 1464

Modified:
   pkg/inst/doc/src/appendix/releasenotes.rnw
Log:
backward compatibility patch for autosocket

Modified: pkg/inst/doc/src/appendix/releasenotes.rnw
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--- pkg/inst/doc/src/appendix/releasenotes.rnw	2008-10-08 18:42:59 UTC (rev 1463)
+++ pkg/inst/doc/src/appendix/releasenotes.rnw	2008-10-08 18:59:31 UTC (rev 1464)
@@ -14,6 +14,28 @@
 The release notes are listed in reverse chronological order:
 most recent on top.
 
+\section*{2.0 series}
+
+The 2.0 series started in summer 2008 along with the moving
+of the seqinr sources on R-forge.
+
+\subsection*{release 2.0-0}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+
+\item Function \texttt{autosocket()} has been changed to behave more
+  friendly with outdated R versions. This is essentially a backward
+  compatibility issue that will not be maintained in the future.
+  The function \texttt{autosocket()} works hard to check that everything
+  is OK with the last opened database, especially with the socket
+  infos available in \texttt{banknameSocket\$socket} thru its 
+  \texttt{summary()} generic. In old R versions (\textit{e.g.} 2.6.2) this
+  was returning \texttt{socket} instead of \texttt{sockconn} for the
+  class, yielding an error in seqinR 1.1-7. The old result is now
+  allowed but a warning is issued.
+
+\end{itemize}
+
 \section*{1.1 series}
 
 \subsection*{release 1.1-7}