[ESS-bugs] Splus version 6 or 8 .. {was "Request that ..."}

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "TH" == Tim Hesterberg <timh at insightful.com>
>>>>>     on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:14:17 -0800 writes:

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    TH> (2) accuracy -- the "S+6" is misleading, as the current
    TH> release is S-PLUS 8.0.4; it has been a long time since
    TH> S-PLUS 6.x.

    TH> Thanks, Tim Hesterberg

Hi Tim,  for me, unfortunately, Splus 6.x is still the current
version, in spite of the fact, that ETH has paid its academic
(site) licence for S-plus every year, probably since about 1988
or whenver "Stat.Sci" began.

Splus 7 and now Splus 8.x have been "delivered" but are not ever
used from all our linux workstations, because part of the
licence server business has always failed, and failed still,
recently when the IT staff tried to get S-plus 8.x running.
We (ETH / Math.dept of ETH) use quite a bit of software with
such licence server keys, and ETH-IT has a dedicated
licence-server machine just for this purpose; it seems all other
software runs fine, but S-plus has not ... ever since S-plus 7.x
came out..