ESS 5.4 released

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Howdy,

On 11 June 2009 at 08:52, Martin Maechler wrote:
| Hi Dirk and ESS core  (Dirk's mail went to me + ESS-debian
| only),

My bad. I may have nuked a list of fear of sending a 'dev' message to the
user list.
 
| >>>>> "DE" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
| >>>>>     on Mon, 8 Jun 2009 15:43:10 -0500 writes:
| 
|     DE> On 8 June 2009 at 18:04, Martin Maechler wrote:
|     DE> | Dear ESS-help readers,
|     DE> | 
|     DE> | > The ESS Developers proudly announce the release of ESS
|     DE> | >    5.4
|     DE> | 
|     DE> | available at  http://ess.r-project.org/ from the "Download" tab.
| 
|     DE> I just built the new Debian package, and it wanted a newer etc/config.guess.
| 
|     DE> Should that / could that get updated?  I'd be happy to commit it but as it is
|     DE> outside of the zone I typically labour in I thought I'd better ask here
|     DE> first.
| 
| I think I have never actively made use of <ESS>/etc/config.guess
| nor edited it.
| Do any other ESS-corers know about it's use ?
| 
| I'm happy for you, Dirk, to update it.

I'd be glad to, but my knowledge of autotools and friends is also limited.
AFAIK these tools run against current versions of these files coming 'from
the system' (and/or the developer's machine) rather than the actual sources
one ships as those latter ones could get stale.  Should be fine to replace
this.  Let me know...

One other thing:  we still have the open bug report at 
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=371058
about help(foo, package=bar) not opening a new buffer.  Is that actually
fixable, or shall I just close it 'as that is the way things are' ?

Dirk

| I'm *very* time-limited these days (10 days to come), so have
| not more time.
| 
|     DE> Thanks for getting 5.4 out!
| 
| you're welcome!
| Martin
| 
|     DE> Dirk
| 
|     DE> -- 
|     DE> Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.

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