Re: Including ESS with Emacs

[Alex Branham <alex.branham@gmail.com>]

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Everyone who has contributed to the current instance has signed the
paperwork, so as soon as we release a new version we can add ESS to ELPA.

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022, 5:26 PM Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:

> > There has been a discussion about including ESS in GNU ELPA a while back
> > [1] but apparently that effort has stalled due to the copyright
> > paperwork.
> > Maybe it should be added to NonGNU ELPA?
>
> Actually, it stalled later, in 2020 for no good reason.
> AFAIK the code was pretty much ready.  In my mail archive it seems in the
> last communication with Alex we were discussin details about a cleanup
> patch to make ESS buildable "in the usual way" (rather than via ESS's
> own makefile, and without breaking if julia-mode is not installed, or
> something like that).
>
> Maybe I just dropped the ball.  Alex?  Eric?
> I also added Lionel in the Cc since `git log` suggests that he's doing
> a fair bit of maintenance lately.
>
>
>         Stefan
>
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