On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 01:00:21AM -0500, Steve Hall wrote: > > I'm not asking for updates at each Vim patch... I just need a current > snapshot to test. If I can make binaries available with it, we could > generate much more feedback. Bram is understandably concerned about > adding significant code changes without testing, especially in the > larger community and across multiple platforms. Nadim is on vacation now and he won't be back in action to do any vim hacking until a few weeks. In the meantime, I can try to updated, if you can give me a timeframe to work with. > I prefer chicken-and-egg -- without testing, no inclusion; without > inclusion, no patch updates. Somebody has to give a little. ;) I think > Bram has opened the door to including it contingent on more feedback. > > [..] > > All I can do is promise to include your patch in our binaries and not > update them without it. When Windows users start clamoring for more > current patch levels from us, we then have some leverage to explain > why your patch should be official. We can also be another source for > downloading it and explaining our goal. I'll also see about getting > some Unix RPMs rolled with it, too. It's understood -- it is simply that we would have liked to see a faster development cycle for VIM than it currently is. Over a year for a patch of this kind is a long time for what is essentially a text editor. However, since neither we nor you are directly involved we will just have to do with ;) We very much appreciate your offer to help and we will certainly like to have our users try it out on their Win32 platforms. Do I just consider all the patches available here: ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches applicable? ie. do I assume they are all 'official'? later -- ------------------------------------------------------- | Mohammed Elzubeir | Visit us at: | | | http://www.arabeyes.org/ | | Arabeyes Project | Homepage: | | Unix the 'right' way | http://fakkir.net/~elzubeir/| ------------------------------------------------------- --- Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=elzubeir
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