[Gretl-devel] Re: towards packages with R in the background

On Thu, 31 Oct 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> But if it's not meant in a >= sense, then the question arises how to > give several versions which are known to work. I can see the point that > it "usually" will work with newer versions, and so that information is > perhaps not super important. But if you want to convey the meaning that > it is actually tested, perhaps the package author did really test on > multiple versions? > (Putting several space-separated versions in parentheses of some kind > also seems feasible to parse.) OK, we could go that way. But my preference is to keep this line as simple as possible. I'm thinking that if a package author has tested successfully with multiple R/package versions, she should just record the earliest known-good versions in the R-depends line. (These may or may not be the earliest versions that actually work, since we don't expect a package writer to back-track through R and R-package versions to find the exact point at which they're too old.) But the package help text might usefully add information about any other known-good versions.