On Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 06:53:53PM -0500, Scott McDermott wrote: > Martin Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 12:30:35PM -0600: > > Are there plans to include VIM 5.0 in the release version of hamm? It has > > been released for a while, but I haven't seen it in the update > > announcements. Does it currently have a maintainer? > > It is in beta, and the revisions change quickly. I just compiled 5.0x > less than a week ago and, checking the ftp site...oh, well it's still > 5.0x but that's rare, usually it changes like every 2 minutes :)
The VIM package maintainer is Galen Hazelwood, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sent him email back in December about VIM 5, and he had this to say: There's a serious problem with packaging these vim betas. Bram made an incredibly stupid decision when he began using postfix letters to denote test versions. The problem is that if I package 5.0s, and upload it, people will install it. When the official 5.0 is released, called 5.0, and I package that, it looks like a downgrade to dpkg and dselect. That's really bad, because it means people who use automatic download systems (dftp or dpkg-ftp) will never see it. The only way around that would be to use epochs, and I regard epochs as a last resort solution. However, I'm keeping up with the vim sources, and will package a release as soon as possible. So the question would seem to be, is 5.0 now genuinely a release version without postfix letters, or does the problem Galen alludes to still exist? -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Hidden harmony is Dep't of Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona | better than manifest." WWW: http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/~dsew/ | --Heraclitus -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
