Re: VIM 5.0

[David Sewell <dsew@packrat.aml.arizona.edu>]

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?
-- 
David Sewell * dsew@packrat.aml.arizona.edu    | "Hidden harmony is
Dep't of Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona         |  better than manifest."
 WWW: http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/~dsew/    |           --Heraclitus


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