On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 08:55:50PM +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> On 9/11/06, A.J.Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> [a way to create a list of what patches has been applied]
> 
> Here's a simpler version of that script that doesn't allow for patches
> to be skipped.  I don't know if the Vim build scripts actually allow
> for patches to be skipped, and considering that later patches will
> often depend on earlier ones, I can't see any reason why someone
> wouldn't have applied patch i when they have applied patch j, where i
> < j.

The Vim build scripts have no knowledge of which patches have or haven't
been applied.  One can skip patches and an example of a situation where
that might be done is if the patch applies to the extra tarball.  If I'm
not using that, I have no need for the patch(es) that apply to it.

James
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