Re: XEmacs Packages have been formally released
Ar an naoiú lá de mí Lúnasa, scríobh Hauke Fath:
On 08/09/18 13:13, Mats Lidell wrote:
>> Hauke Fath writes:
>> I just noticed that ess is missing from the list, while present in the
>> repository <https://bitbucket.org/xemacs/ess/src>;. Omission, or for
>> any particular reason?
>
> Yes. I was about to come to that as well. Thanks for bringing it up.
>
> If it is left out for some good reason it could have impact whether it
> should be deprecated. Even if it is the tip in the xemacs package rqepo
> I think it is far behind the current upstream version which makes it
> questionable maybe to release it?
Well, from upstream's
<http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#Installation>;:
"Due to XEmacs lacking some features that ESS requires, ESS support of
XEmacs ended with ESS 12.04-4."
Which is already six years behind -current:
<https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/releases?after=v12.04>;, and still
eight years ahead of the XEmacs ess. Funny that the website still names
XEmacs support <https://ess.r-project.org/index.php?Section=home>;.
It wasn’t an intentional omission on my part; I just did make bindist in the
package tree, and uploaded those packages that were built.
Looking at the old packages (which I have elsewhere on the server) it wasn’t
included previously either. I will look into it further.
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