Re: .. slider -- fixing R 4.2.2-only bug in as.Date.POSIXlt()

[Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>]

>>>>> Dirk Eddelbuettel 
>>>>>     on Thu, 10 Nov 2022 07:16:55 -0600 writes:

    > On 10 November 2022 at 14:04, Martin Maechler wrote:
    > | 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..

    > Yes as that is how (minimal) patches get applied and reported in ChangeLog.
    > Some packages (gcc, ...) fairly regularly carry patches.

    > What you propose (jump point blank to 4.2.2.patched which has not release
    > number is really no cleaner).

it has an svn rev number as part of  R.version or
R.version.string

> R.version.string
[1] "R version 4.2.2 Patched (2022-11-06 r83321)"
> 

Of course you are right, Dirk, that we *could* consider adding a
minor-minor patch level, conceptually 4.2.2.1 (if 4.2.2 <==> 4.2.2.0),
but in the past we ended up deciding that was too much
release/maintenance work for us.

Martin