Excellent..... thanks.... exactly what I hoped to find. Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at="" fhcrc.org=""> wrote: On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Laurent Gatto <laurent.gatto at="" gmail.com=""> wrote: > On 6 November 2012 20:50, Cook, Malcolm <mec at="" stowers.org=""> wrote: >> Kasper, >> >> Yes, right, the NEWS file. >> >> In practice I find that the NEWS files are often not updated between patch releases in the 'release' version. >> >> Spot checking a list of packages that I just updated, I find some that don't have info on patch level changes, some that have a news file but whose must current entry is for an old release, and one that DOes have patch level NEWS (yeah!), and one whose NEWS is old. >> >> For example: >> >> no patch level release entry in NEWS >> 'GenomicRanges' >> 'IRanges' >> >> patch level entry in NEWS >> edgeR >> >> newest NEWS is old >> VariantAnnotation >> >> I guess what I want is svn log available from web/RSS. > > http://bioconductor.org/rss/svnlog.rss This just shows updates to trunk. I've added an RSS feed that shows commits to the release branch: http://bioconductor.org/rss/svnlog.release.rss A link to this can also be found here: http://bioconductor.org/developers/svnlog/ Dan > > And for new packages > > http://bioconductor.org/rss/new_packages.rss > > Hope this helps, > > Laurent > >> Any hopes out there? >> >> Thx >> >> ~Malcolm >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Kasper Daniel Hansen [mailto:kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com] >>> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 2:32 PM >>> To: Cook, Malcolm >>> Cc: Bioconductor Newsgroup (bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch); bioc-devel at r-project.org >>> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] knowing what is changed/new in release patches >>> >>> A package may choose to provide a NEWS file which you should be able >>> to access using >>> news(package = "IRanges") >>> (you can also ask for news added after a given version number, the >>> query above lists the entire file). It is optional to include and it >>> is optional how detailed it is, but this is intended to be a readable >>> summary of changes. >>> >>> For this reason, I very strongly suggests that all packages include >>> such a file. Unfortunately, it is easy to forget to update. >>> >>> Aside from this, svn log is your only friend. >>> >>> Kasper >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Cook, Malcolm <mec at="" stowers.org=""> wrote: >>> > Is there a generic way to learn what is changed or new in a "released" package since its release? >>> > >>> > For instance, IRanges was released as 1.16.0 but is now at 1.16.4. >>> > >>> > I'd like to know what was changed in this released version. >>> > >>> > I do already know that I can monitor changes to devel with either >>> > http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/svnlog/ or its RSS feed. >>> > And I do. >>> > And this is very useful. >>> > >>> > However, I don't know how to do this to the release version (i.e. to learn what changes to devel were deemed sufficiently >>> important to merit a patch release to devel), other than check out the svn and use diff, which I don't want to have to do (at least for >>> now). >>> > >>> > Am I missing something? >>> > >>> > Any pointers? >>> > >>> > Thanks! >>> > >>> > Malcolm Cook >>> > Computational Biology - Stowers Institute for Medical Research >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Bioc-devel at r-project.org mailing list >>> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioc-devel at r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > > -- > [ Laurent Gatto | slashhome.be ] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel