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

I've begun thinking about representation of R requirements in the spec file for a contributed package. Seems to me the information should probably be in a single line, something like R-depends = R >= 3.4.3, glmnet >= 1.9-9 If we're just going to print the stuff to the right of the first '=' as part of a warning when a user fires up a relevant package, easy enough. Parsing and checking it would not be so easy.

Should we allow for listing multiple known-good versions (of R itself or R packages)? I think I'd prefer just the ">=" notation, with the proviso (in the warning text) that we can't guarantee that later versions will still work, although that should be a reasonable expectation.