[ESS] xargs XEmacs bug squashed

[John Fox]

Dear Rodney,

The current Windows installer for XEmacs doesn't install the sumo version,
but it does install (apparently) the packages that ESS needs.

Regards,
 John

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John Fox
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4M4
905-525-9140x23604
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of 
> Rodney Sparapani
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 1:49 PM
> To: John Fox
> Cc: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [ESS] xargs XEmacs bug squashed
> 
> John Fox wrote:
> 
> >Dear Rodney,
> >
> >Yes, that works, but I find it very odd: That is, when I updated 
> >xemacs-base with the pre-release version, I assumed that this would 
> >*replace* the current version of the package. Obviously 
> that's not the case.
> >
> >Anyway, everything works now, and when I have a chance (soon), I'll 
> >update my init file and instructions.
> >
> >I'm copying this response to ess-help. Just to be clear: When 
> >xemacs-base is updated via the package tool to fix the 
> "xargs" problem, 
> >it's necessary to remove the older version of the package, 
> which is in 
> >C:\XEmacs\Packages\xemacs-packages\lisp. The new version is in 
> >C:\XEmacs\Packages\lisp.
> >
> >Thanks for clearing this up,
> > John
> >  
> >
> Hi John:
> 
> Thanks for helping us clear this up.  I'll just give a little 
> background about the xemacs package system.  It is really 
> nice to be able to have every package under the sun installed 
> with your fresh, new xemacs install.  However, the one 
> drawback is that updating the packages hasn't been perfected 
> yet.  That is one of the reasons that ESS is no longer an 
> xemacs package (see the instructions in Makeconf to create your own).
> I tend not to update packages individually (except ESS of 
> course).  When problems crop up, usually due to a new release 
> of xemacs, I get the latest sumo and install it over the old 
> one.  This usually fixes the problems.  If not, then the M-x 
> report-xemacs-bug command is real handy for displaying 
> information on your installation in detail.  And, if you 
> can't see the problem, then it might be a bug so you can 
> follow the bug reporting instructions and send it in to the 
> xemacs gang.
> 
> Rodney
> //
> 
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