[Phylobase-devl] CRAN release

[Steven Kembel]

Sounds good to me as well. Thanks to everyone who did the work to get  
the package into great shape.
Cheers,
Steve
On Oct 27, 2009, at 7:40 AM, 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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