Re: VIM 5.0

[Adam Klein <aklein@eskimo.com>]

On Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 11:09:08AM -0700, David Sewell wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 06:53:53PM -0500, Scott McDermott wrote:
> > Martin Jackson <mjackson@deskmedia.com> 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, galenh@micron.net.
> 
> 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?

Yes, 5.0 is an official release.  The tgz file on the FTP server is
called "vim-5.0.tar.gz".

	Adam Klein


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