[ESS] Random ESS Freezes

Bill Denney bill at denney.ws
Wed May 8 16:06:32 CEST 2013


Hi,

I have been using the git version from May 6, and I've not had any freezes since then while in normal usage before I was having about 1/day.  I can't guarantee that the bug is gone, but it is much better.

Thanks,

Bill

On May 1, 2013, at 9:44 AM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
>>> Bill Denney <bill at denney.ws>
>>> on Wed, 1 May 2013 08:59:17 -0400 wrote:
> 
>> Hi Martin and Vitalie,
> 
>> When testing, should I use git master (as downloadable from the ess
>> website) or svn trunk?
> 
> For testing SVN is better, git is supposed to be more stable because it
> is also used by MELPA. So git is usually lagging a couple of days
> sometimes by more, depending on the amount of changes.
> 
> For radically new features and contributions git branches are better,
> but directly from github so that you can request a pull if you
> contribute.
> 
> I have just synchronized our github branch.
> 
>    Vitalie



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