-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 26-Mar-2015 14:32, Manuel Ortega wrote: > It's smaller than Linux, therefore it's not too big? It's far too > big for the kind of thing it is. It's a plain text editor; a user > shouldn't have 50MB worth of useless things (much from *eleven* > years ago) hanging around.
With the broadband connections that most of us now fortunately have, 50 MB is nothing. People stream / download entire HD movies all the time. Java projects using Maven routinely download half of the Internet to get to a build :-) > Surely nobody needs 7.0 or 7.1 for bisection anymore. 7.3, OK. > *Maybe* 7.2. And anyway, bisection doesn't require that it all be > in one repo (unless one believes the ability to "hg bisect" is a > requirement of bisecting, which it is not). I find the information when something was last changed very valuable. > Bram can (and should) put older parts under github.com/vim/70 > <http://github.com/vim/70> and github.com/vim/71 > <http://github.com/vim/71>, and then anyone who wants to go > spelunking back in time can still do so. > > It's time to weigh the benefits of keeping ancient code in the main > repo against the benefits of a small repo. Keeping the *whole* > history benefits a very small number of people on very rare > occasions. Making a smaller repo benefits everyone on nearly all > occasions, and at most mildly inconveniences the very few people on > those very rare occasions. I'd argue the other way: Most people don't care about the full download (which needs to be done only once on initial checkout). There may be some poor fellows with poor connections; if you or some other volunteer would like to provide lighter repo versions, just do so. Bram already is a bottleneck in development; please don't make him work harder by adding yet more complexity in repo maintenance! - -- regards, ingo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVFAzlAAoJEA7ziXlAzQ/voX0H/24Ep5qaSKLGaXYl1GV9cdG1 PB1a+YbT93NxKes/9SrLt/N2yChauyUliY76c69MHyT4wBCTQ7PFul0tT69mJJYr YyB7d81Js0vzJbba8/3b6lzxWgXZwfdMZhY/evjLAONWOz9kDZYURSif0O4uWm1T pfZBqm/IeJuWPO2zglfVtlt8cjoHxvXtJ63DI//TJUkFX6wXV9VqucAXEstvHhar q3oXCxWqrx/t4P0ZBRWNKH/bQKX2gmYgefAPsrZBg9VWqV//PgViG0DAQLFr2iAW 48nDkSg4EUahbLyFmWbjLjKP0m69+xlbP97hi7fNO0VVIlMnakrhK0q7bB23qFo= =dMfm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
