Hi Rodney and all,
As I was rolling up my sleeves to prepare an update of my distributions to
include the newest ESS, I learned that AUCTeX, now in the 14.x series, is no
longer distributed as a standalone tarball. Users should now install it using
the Emacs package system.
I was briefly back at the question I asked here a few months ago: is it time to
retire my distributions since most additions can now be installed using
package-install? At the time, some people showed continued interest for an
out-of-the-box distribution. I'm probably one of them. Furthermore, I offer
some customizations and extensions (Hunspell and dictionaries, for example) not
as readily available elsewhere.
After some fiddling, I found a way to reconcile my distributions and the Emacs
package system: install packages in a sysadmin way inside the Emacs tree and
ship this. When users install the distribution, the package system is already
initialized (therefore users should *not* include (package-initialize) in their
init file). The nice thing for the maintainer: building the distributions is
now much simpler and faster.
I'm testing this a little before I release updates, but so far, so good!
Cheers,
v.
> Le 11 janv. 2025 à 13:42, Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
> <ess-help@r-project.org> a écrit :
>
> Hi Gang:
>
> ESS-core is pleased to announce that our latest annual release installment
> is now available on ELPA. We have a few bug-fixes and new features.
>
> The biggest change is in philosophy as described in the first bullet below�
>
> Changes and New Features in 25.01.0:
>
> * polymode: In our transition from literate libraries (such as noweb
> documented below with respect to 19.04), we now recommend the polymode
> packages as a more suitable replacement. Furthermore, we suggest the related
> polymodes including poly-noweb, poly-markdown and poly-R (installed in that
> order). The package polymode itself, as well as the polymodes packages, are
> all on MELPA rather than ELPA. Therefore, you need to add MELPA to the list
> of installation archives as follows. �(add-to-list 'package-archives
> '("melpa-stable" . https://stable.melpa.org/packages/))� for M-x
> package-install
> * ESS[R]: The shorthand notation for lambda functions and the question
> mark are now fontified as keywords. Contributed by Maxime Pettinger.
> * ESS[SAS]: Developed new comprehensive lists of PROCs and functions for
> syntax highlighting. See etc/proc.sas and etc/func.sas.
>
> https://ess.r-project.org
>
> --
> Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, He/Him
> President, Wisconsin Chapter of the American Statistical Association
> Division of Biostatistics, Data Science Institute
> Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus
>
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