On 22 September 2021 at 15:15, Lionel Henry wrote: | We'd love to do a release but ESS is not in a good place right now. | Recent versions of Emacs interrupt background commands (essential to | completion and contextual help like eldoc) when the user starts | typing, which causes hard to solve problems.
Yes :-/ I guess that was the state of affairs last time this came up. | The dev branch is mostly working but not 100% correctly. Unfortunately | none of us seem to have the time to work on ESS at the moment. | | That said, while Martin, Vitalie and I notice issues here and there, | we haven't had serious bug reports in a while, despite the dev branch | being used by many Melpa users. So maybe releasing in the current | state is better than nothing. Noted. It's a trade-off. Nobody wants unhappy users from not-quite-baked code but the staleness is also an issue. And I trust you all to make the right call. It will, as always, sort itself out eventually. Dirk -- https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
