Re: .. slider -- fixing R 4.2.2-only bug in as.Date.POSIXlt()
>>>>> Dirk Eddelbuettel
>>>>> on Thu, 10 Nov 2022 06:58:40 -0600 writes:
> On 10 November 2022 at 12:03, Martin Maechler wrote:
> | NEWS entry (in R-patched only at the moment):
> It was not clear from your email whether it would be possible for you to
> distill out a patch. Are you in effect saying "4.2.2.patched or nothing"?
Well, yes, inadvertently, that would be the consequence.
But more generally, would you really want a version a version
of R 4.2.2 which is *not* R 4.2.2 but a patched version of it,
buyt not called "patched".
I think we (R-core) would very strongly not like that..
Martin
> What I suggested yesterday was to aim for a more minimal surgical change to
> 4.2.2. We all believe in releases that are properly marked (and tested). I
> would prefer to not jump wholesale into 4.2.2.patched likely containing more
> unrelated changes (though hopefully not too many given how recent 4.2.2 was).
> Dirk
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