Re: Vim 5.0 package and compile-time options in packages
On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 02:33:36PM -0500, Scott McDermott wrote: > David Sewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:43:49AM -0700: > > A Debian package of 5.0 has just been released, something a lot of > > users were eagerly waiting for. Earlier today I installed it, and > > was disappointed to discover that GUI support was not enabled, as it > > had been in the 4.6 Debian package. > > Isn't the GUI stuff in separate executables, g* ? No, "gvim" is just a symbolic link to "vim", but VIM treats that command name as equivalent to "vim -g", invoking the GUI version (assuming it's available). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Vim 5.0 package and compile-time options in packages
David Sewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:43:49AM -0700: > A Debian package of 5.0 has just been released, something a lot of > users were eagerly waiting for. Earlier today I installed it, and > was disappointed to discover that GUI support was not enabled, as it > had been in the 4.6 Debian package. Isn't the GUI stuff in separate executables, g* ? -- Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VIM 5.0
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]
Re: VIM 5.0
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 <[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? Yes, 5.0 is an official release. The tgz file on the FTP server is called "vim-5.0.tar.gz". Adam Klein -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VIM 5.0
Scott McDermott hat gesagt: // 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 :) > But it is very usable. I am using VIM - Vi IMproved 5.0p ALPHA from Oct. 97 for some time now and it never crashed on me. I would love to see an official debian package of Vim-5 in Debian 2.0, because it's a damn good editor, by far my favourite one. I should mail to "work needing and etc. packages" now I think. -- http://www.einblick.de/";> Frank Barknecht Das Koelner Stadt- und Unimagazin >-< -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: VIM 5.0
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 :) You must be looking at a different place than me. From the vim web site at www.vim.org: VIM Versions: VIM-5 Latest version: VIM-5.0 released on 980219 [Feb 19 1998] -- Adam Klein -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: VIM 5.0
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 :) -- Scott -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
XFree86 3.2.2 (was: Re: VIM 5.0)
On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Martin Jackson wrote: > 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? A question related to this: Will XFree86 3.3.2 be included? I have heard it was released last Friday. Remco -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
