[Phylobase-devl] CRAN release

[François Michonneau]

  I agree, I think we can do a beta release. I had started to go through
the documentation some time ago, but it might be worthwhile to read over
it again to make sure that there isn't anything left that is totally out
of date.

  Cheers,
  -- François 

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 10:40 -0400, Ben Bolker wrote:
> 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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