Migrate from the semver package to the smvr package?

[eitsupi]

A while ago I released the smvr package¹, which defines SemVer on top of the vctrs package with pure R code.

rDataPipeline depends on the semver package², which hasn't been updated in years and may be removed from CRAN, so it might be worth replacing the semver package with the smvr package.

To be fair, the semver package is written in C++, so it is faster than the smvr package in terms of parsing speed.
On the other hand, the smvr class vectors defined in the smvr package have the advantage of being able to be treated as regular R vectors, making them faster for operations such as sorting.
See eitsupi/smvr#14 for more details.

Footnotes

1. https://cran.r-project.org/package=smvr ↩

2. https://cran.r-project.org/package=semver tagged as "issues need fixing before 2025-12-18" at this point. ↩