On Apr 11, 2024, at 2:44 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

Believe it or not I am *still* waiting on our license server upgrade to be
finalized (a particular joy of network license software is when they change
vendors and your IT people have to open new ports).

Ah! The perks of proprietary software!
No hurry on my end,

Our license issues have been sorted out and I've been able to test the idlw-shell capabilities of the emacs-upstream-merge branch. I had to make a few small tweaks to the help system, as often happens with new IDL releases, but the (funky old) completion and other features continue to work pretty well. I merged the branch to master and mentioned ELPA in the README.

One question I had is what happens to the texinfo manual for ELPA packages, and if they need any special treatment to get installed. I am also not 100% sure this will load correctly as a package given the file re-org I did some time back; I've been testing it using a use-package :load-path and that works, but nothing like a real test of the live package. Can always give it a try after it lands on ELPA and make any changes needed.

Other than that, and any pending suggestions or concerns you had, I think I'm ready to flip the ELPA switch.

Thanks for your work on this.