The main difference is that we now only require and test for Java7 and not Java 8. Now BioConductor packages and others stuck in Java7 should be okay. Initially I was going to update the rcdklibs library AND rcdk but I noticed that all of the rcdk tests passed when building with the previous rcdklibs. So I did NOT submit the rcklibs JARS but simply built the rcdk JARs as per the README using rcdklibs 1.5.13. The result was a small update without a need for a size justification and the code review was quick and easy.
I would propose waiting to update the rcdklibs jars for the 2.0 release.
I've updated the rcdk library to version 3.3.8 and submitted the updated package to CRAN. It has been accepted and is live. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rcdk/index.html.
The main difference is that we now only require and test for Java7 and not Java 8. Now BioConductor packages and others stuck in Java7 should be okay. Initially I was going to update the rcdklibs library AND rcdk but I noticed that all of the rcdk tests passed when building with the previous rcdklibs. So I did NOT submit the rcklibs JARS but simply built the rcdk JARs as per the README using rcdklibs 1.5.13. The result was a small update without a need for a size justification and the code review was quick and easy.
I would propose waiting to update the rcdklibs jars for the 2.0 release.
Zach cp