ubuntu/debian package for latest ESS

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 03:21:34PM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote:
>     DE> So are we all-aboard then that
> 
>     DE> #400382: ess: options(error=recover) in R confuses ESS	
> 
>     DE> is the last open bug (and it is understood that ESS Core now knows it
>     DE> and may get to it, or not, in a future release) 
> 
> No!  In my eyes, the last open "bug" is
> 
>        * #371058: ESS cannot detect help(foo, package=bar)
> 

I am really sorry -- this is the one I meant to point to, of course. My bad!

> which I'd label a feature request rather than a bug,
> and that's the only open one I think.
> 
> The    options(error=recover)
> was dealt with here {file lisp/ChangeLog } :
> 
>    2007-01-22  Martin Maechler  <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> 
> 	   * ess-cust.el (inferior-ess-safe-names-command): new
> 	   try(names(.)); this finally gets rid of "hanging" in object
> 	   completion, e.g., when options(error=recover) is active in R.
> 
> and I would not know of any other problem with it.
> 
>     DE> so that, as far as the Debian bug tracker is concerned,
>     DE> released 5.3.8~svn3... would bring us down to one?
> 
> (or zero)

Gotta count the feature request til we close it, but I'll mark it
accordingly (in Debian-speak: severity will be set to wishlist)
 
>     DE> Dirk, now looking to upload the shiny new package this eve thanks to everybody's input

s/uploading/uploading/, sorry

> 
> looking forward myself!

:-)

Dirk

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