[Phylobase-devl] CRAN release

[Ben Bolker]

  sounds good to me.
  Thanks to Jim, Peter, and François for doing all the heavy lifting
during this phase ...

  cheers
   Ben

Jim Regetz wrote:
> Releasing sounds like a great idea to me! I absolute agree about having 
> more eyes to uncover issues and such. Also, expanding the pool of folks 
> who use and build on phylobase should be a positive force for setting 
> development priorities.
> 
> FYI, earlier today we discovered a problem with src/*.c files not being 
> compiled during the Windows build process. I believe it was caused by an 
> overly aggressive Makefile.win (created specifically for the ncl code), 
> and have my fingers crossed that the switch to a Makevars.win will do 
> the trick. It now builds properly for me on an XP VM with the Windows 
> toolset, and I'll check to see how it fares during the next R-forge 
> build/check cycle.
> 
> Jim
> 
> Peter Cowan wrote:
>> I suggest we do a beta release of phylobase to CRAN.  We seem to have  
>> tackled most of the architectural issues and bugs that we wanted to.   
>> This and a lack of time has caused development to be notably slower  
>> over the last month.
>>
>> To the best of my knowledge all planned but unimplmented code, falls  
>> into the category of enhancements that would not break code produced  
>> w/ the current version.
>>
>> I think there would be great value in getting the package out to a  
>> wider audience (just this week I was asked how to do things in ape  
>> that are trivial w/ phylobase).  More eyes will make bugs and gaps in  
>> the documentation more obvious.  Furthermore, package developers will  
>> shy away from phylobase until it is available to them on CRAN.
>>
>> R-core has also just released 2.10.0 (which should make some mac  
>> issues a bit better.)
>>
>> Any objections?
>>
>> Peter
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