[ESS] ESS 25.01.0 released on ELPA

[Vincent Goulet]

Hi Rodney and all,

As I was rolling up my sleeves to prepare an update of my distributions to include the newest ESS, I learned that AUCTeX, now in the 14.x series, is no longer distributed as a standalone tarball. Users should now install it using the Emacs package system.

I was briefly back at the question I asked here a few months ago: is it time to retire my distributions since most additions can now be installed using package-install? At the time, some people showed continued interest for an out-of-the-box distribution. I'm probably one of them. Furthermore, I offer some customizations and extensions (Hunspell and dictionaries, for example) not as readily available elsewhere.

After some fiddling, I found a way to reconcile my distributions and the Emacs package system: install packages in a sysadmin way inside the Emacs tree and ship this. When users install the distribution, the package system is already initialized (therefore users should *not* include (package-initialize) in their init file). The nice thing for the maintainer: building the distributions is now much simpler and faster.

I'm testing this a little before I release updates, but so far, so good!

Cheers,

v.

> Le 11 janv. 2025 à 13:42, Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help <ess-help using r-project.org> a écrit :
> 
> Hi Gang:
> 
> ESS-core is pleased to announce that our latest annual release installment
> is now available on ELPA.  We have a few bug-fixes and new features.
> 
> The biggest change is in philosophy as described in the first bullet below�
> 
> Changes and New Features in 25.01.0:
> 
>  *   polymode: In our transition from literate libraries (such as noweb documented below with respect to 19.04), we now recommend the polymode packages as a more suitable replacement. Furthermore, we suggest the related polymodes including poly-noweb, poly-markdown and poly-R (installed in that order). The package polymode itself, as well as the polymodes packages, are all on MELPA rather than ELPA. Therefore, you need to add MELPA to the list of installation archives as follows. �(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa-stable" . https://stable.melpa.org/packages/))� for M-x package-install
>  *   ESS[R]: The shorthand notation for lambda functions and the question mark are now fontified as keywords. Contributed by Maxime Pettinger.
>  *   ESS[SAS]: Developed new comprehensive lists of PROCs and functions for syntax highlighting. See etc/proc.sas and etc/func.sas.
> 
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> President, Wisconsin Chapter of the American Statistical Association
> Division of Biostatistics, Data Science Institute
> Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus
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