it usually takes up to 4 hours to propagate to MELPA.  I can't reproduce the error you report.  At least, with a fresh emacs and install from MELPA everything seems to load and work fine, even with emacs 29.  There seem to be many issues with native-compiling on the most modern emacs, are you using that?

John

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Professor John Kitchin (he/him/his)
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Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 1:58 PM Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> wrote:

> in the most current version (3) of org-ref, the labels that are found are
> defined in org-ref-ref-label-regexps. At the moment there isn't a pattern
> for ID. No particular reason, I haven't used ID like that for many years. I
> added and pushed that to the current repo just now.

Thanks, that is in MELPA already?

BTW, I downloaded the latest MELPA org-ref pkg and obtained the
following error (running emacs 29, master a couple of days ago)
,----
|
| Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument listp "gls")
|   cl-first("gls")
|   (org-link-set-parameters (cl-first command) :follow
|   #'or-follow-glossary :face 'org-ref-glossary-face-fn :help-echo
|   'or-glossary-tooltip  :export #'(lambda (path _ format) (cond ((memq format '(latex beamer)) (format "\\%s{%s}" (cl-first command) path)) (t (format "%s" path)))))
|   (let ((command (car --dolist-tail--))) (org-link-set-parameters (cl-first command) :follow #'or-follow-glossary :face 'org-ref-glossary-face-fn :help-echo 'or-glossary-tooltip :export #'(lambda (path _ format) (cond ((memq format '...) (format "\\%s{%s}" (cl-first command) path)) (t (format "%s" path))))) (setq --dolist-tail-- (cdr --dolist-tail--)))
|   (while --dolist-tail-- (let ((command (car --dolist-tail--))) (org-link-set-parameters (cl-first command) :follow #'or-follow-glossary :face 'org-ref-glossary-face-fn :help-echo 'or-glossary-tooltip :export #'(lambda (path _ format) (cond ((memq format ...) (format "\\%s{%s}" ... path)) (t (format "%s" path))))) (setq --dolist-tail-- (cdr --dolist-tail--))))
|   (let ((--dolist-tail-- org-ref-glossary-gls-commands)) (while --dolist-tail-- (let ((command (car --dolist-tail--))) (org-link-set-parameters (cl-first command) :follow #'or-follow-glossary :face 'org-ref-glossary-face-fn :help-echo 'or-glossary-tooltip :export #'(lambda (path _ format) (cond (... ...) (t ...)))) (setq --dolist-tail-- (cdr --dolist-tail--)))))
|   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/oub/.emacs.d/elpa/org-ref-20211110.1229/org-..." nil t)  ; Reading at buffer position 10359
|   load-with-code-conversion("/home/oub/.emacs.d/elpa/org-ref-20211110.1229/org-..." "/home/oub/.emacs.d/elpa/org-ref-20211110.1229/org-..." nil t)
|   load("/home/oub/.emacs.d/elpa/org-ref-20211110.1229/org-..." nil t)
|   #f(compiled-function (c) #<bytecode -0x142f0bcbab31255a>)(("/home/oub/.emacs.d/elpa/org-ref-20211110.1229/org-..." . 1136))
|   mapc(#f(compiled-function (c) #<bytecode -0x142f0bcbab31255a>) (("/home/oub/.emacs.d/elpa/org-ref-20211110.1229/org-..." . 911) ("/home/oub/.emacs.d/elpa/org-ref-20211110.1229/org-..." . 912) ("/home/oub/.emacs.d/elpa/org-ref-20211110.1229/org-..." . 913) ("/home/oub/.emacs.d/elpa/org-ref-20211110.1229/doi-..." . 1130) ("/home/oub/.emacs.d/elpa/org-ref-20211110.1229/org-..." . 1135) ("/home/oub/.emacs.d/elpa/org-ref-20211110.1229/org-..." . 1136) ("/home/oub/.emacs.d/elpa/org-ref-20211110.1229/org-..." . 1139) ("/home/oub/.emacs.d/elpa/org-ref-20211110.1229/org-..." . 1292) ("/home/oub/.emacs.d/elpa/org-ref-20211110.1229/org-..." . 1341)))
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|   package-activate-1(#s(package-desc :name org-ref :version (20211110 1229) :summary "citations, cross-references and bibliographies in ..." :reqs ((dash (0)) (s (0)) (f (0)) (htmlize (0)) (hydra (0)) (avy (0)) (parsebib (0)) (bibtex-completion (0)) (citeproc (0))) :kind nil :archive nil :dir "/home/oub/.emacs.d/elpa/org-ref-20211110.1229" :extras ((:url . "https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref") (:keywords "org-mode" "cite" "ref" "label") (:maintainer "John Kitchin" . "jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu") (:authors ("John Kitchin" . "jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu")) (:commit . "c87b4155cd2f60ca3a9bed2e6e366c1fa47aec33")) :signed nil) :reload :deps)
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|   #f(compiled-function (&optional good-sigs) #<bytecode 0x1df497376f32ca1c>)(nil)
|   #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode -0x724af0e452d91f2>)()
|   package--with-response-buffer-1("http://melpa.org/packages/" #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x1a36aee082226431>) :file "org-ref-20211110.1229.tar.sig" :async nil :error-function #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode -0x724af0e452d91f2>) :noerror t)
|   package--check-signature("http://melpa.org/packages/" "org-ref-20211110.1229.tar" "org-ref-20211110.1229/\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0..." nil #f(compiled-function (&optional good-sigs) #<bytecode 0x1df497376f32ca1c>))
|   #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode -0xeb56f85b3b07f67>)()
|   package--with-response-buffer-1("http://melpa.org/packages/" #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode -0xeb56f85b3b07f67>) :file "org-ref-20211110.1229.tar" :async nil :error-function #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x1f4000153e91>) :noerror nil)
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|   package-download-transaction((#s(package-desc :name queue :version (0 2) :summary "Queue data structure" :reqs nil :kind single :archive "gnu" :dir nil :extras ((:keywords "extensions" "data structures" "queue") (:authors ("Inge Wallin" . "inge@lysator.liu.se") ("Toby Cubitt" . "toby-predictive@dr-qubit.org")) (:maintainer "Toby Cubitt" . "toby-predictive@dr-qubit.org") (:url . "http://www.dr-qubit.org/emacs.php")) :signed t) #s(package-desc :name citeproc :version (20211111 1008) :summary "A CSL 1.0.1 Citation Processor" :reqs ((emacs (25)) (dash (2 13 0)) (s (1 12 0)) (f (0 18 0)) (queue (0 2)) (string-inflection (1 0)) (org (9)) (parsebib (2 4))) :kind tar :archive "melpa" :dir nil :extras ((:commit . "2857f9bb819d0d0a6e6ed91cc38b165e506bfc2e") (:authors ("András Simonyi" . "andras.simonyi@gmail.com")) (:maintainer "András Simonyi" . "andras.simonyi@gmail.com") (:keywords "bib") (:url . "https://github.com/andras-simonyi/citeproc-el")) :signed nil) #s(package-desc :name org-ref :version (20211110 1229) :summary "citations, cross-references and bibliographies in ..." :reqs ((dash (0)) (s (0)) (f (0)) (htmlize (0)) (hydra (0)) (avy (0)) (parsebib (0)) (bibtex-completion (0)) (citeproc (0))) :kind tar :archive "melpa" :dir nil :extras ((:commit . "c87b4155cd2f60ca3a9bed2e6e366c1fa47aec33") (:authors ("John Kitchin" . "jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu")) (:maintainer "John Kitchin" . "jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu") (:keywords "org-mode" "cite" "ref" "label") (:url . "https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref")) :signed nil)))
|   package-install(#s(package-desc :name org-ref :version (20211110 1229) :summary "citations, cross-references and bibliographies in ..." :reqs ((dash (0)) (s (0)) (f (0)) (htmlize (0)) (hydra (0)) (avy (0)) (parsebib (0)) (bibtex-completion (0)) (citeproc (0))) :kind tar :archive "melpa" :dir nil :extras ((:commit . "c87b4155cd2f60ca3a9bed2e6e366c1fa47aec33") (:authors ("John Kitchin" . "jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu")) (:maintainer "John Kitchin" . "jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu") (:keywords "org-mode" "cite" "ref" "label") (:url . "https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref")) :signed nil) dont-select)
|   package-menu--perform-transaction((#s(package-desc :name org-ref-prettify :version (20211111 742) :summary "Prettify org-ref citation links" :reqs ((emacs (24 3)) (org-ref (1 1 0)) (bibtex-completion (1 0 0))) :kind single :archive "melpa" :dir nil :extras ((:commit . "0cecd7b2611bd9d282876ab46d490ce3e635ba86") (:authors ("Alex Kost" . "alezost@gmail.com") ("Vitus Schäfftlein" . "vitusschaefftlein@live.de")) (:maintainer "Alex Kost" . "alezost@gmail.com") (:keywords "convenience") (:url . "https://github.com/alezost/org-ref-prettify.el")) :signed nil) #s(package-desc :name org-ref :version (20211110 1229) :summary "citations, cross-references and bibliographies in ..." :reqs ((dash (0)) (s (0)) (f (0)) (htmlize (0)) (hydra (0)) (avy (0)) (parsebib (0)) (bibtex-completion (0)) (citeproc (0))) :kind tar :archive "melpa" :dir nil :extras ((:commit . "c87b4155cd2f60ca3a9bed2e6e366c1fa47aec33") (:authors ("John Kitchin" . "jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu")) (:maintainer "John Kitchin" . "jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu") (:keywords "org-mode" "cite" "ref" "label") (:url . "https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref")) :signed nil)) nil)
|   package-menu-execute()
|   funcall-interactively(package-menu-execute)
|   call-interactively(package-menu-execute nil nil)
|   command-execute(package-menu-execute)
`----