Re: VIM fork?

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at fakkir dot net>]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 12:06:12AM +0100, Chahine M. Hamila wrote:
> I understand the patches for arabic support in VIM were not incorporated
> in the main branch.
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand VIM charityware license allows
> forks.
> In which case, I suggest forking, renaming it, create the necessary deb,
> tgz, and rpm and lobby the distros to integrate it (there's no reason
> distros who want arabic support, i.e. most including the redhat, debian,
> mandrake etc, wouldn't take it). All we need are specialized packagers
> to tell you the truth. It seems Akka isn't getting any support in that
> regard for example, and I think this is stupid as developers would
> better be used developping than packaging...
> 

A fork of VIM would do us more of a disservice than a service. It is
a matter of time until he gets to it. According to my understanding,
he is not considering 'enhancement' type of patches until 6.2 (as
6.1 is strictly for bug-fixes).

later
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