Am 04.08.2006, 21:28 Uhr, schrieb A.J.Mechelynck
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Martin Krischik wrote:
Hello,
Vim 7.0 has been out for some time now and also has a host of new
features and I, for example, have added all the new stuff to the Ada
support [1].
But the files which come with vim are still the old 6.x files - which
leads me to the questions:
How are updates to the runtime files submitted?
When is the deadline for 7.1 (The runtime is not updated for patch
version - right)?
- Many runtime files, and in particular most of the help files, have
been reissued with new or updated contents for version 7.0. You should
find them, for instance, under vim70/runtime/ in
http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.0.tar.bz2
Many - but not all. Quite a few maintainers have updated there runtime
after the release of vim 7.0 - The selectbuf/genutils pligin combo comes
to my mind. They even produced errors.
- You can get the latest runtime files by cvs, svn, or by downloading
everything in ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/ except the contents of
its dos/ subdirectory. (The latter are duplicate copies with "Dos-like"
(CR+NL) ends-of-lines; however, even Dos/Windows versions of Vim will,
with their default settings, understand Vim scripts with "Unix-like" (NL
only) ends-of-lines; and the latter are a few percent (one byte per
line) shorter.) These "latest" runtimes may contain upgrades which have
not made their way into official "patches".
I wasn't asking about how to checkout from cvs/svn - I now that - I was
asking about how to commit to cvs/svn. ;-)
- If you are the maintainer of a script, you should already know how to
submit its updates; if you don't or aren't, do as anyone would:
I fear the original maintainers of the **/ada.vim have files moved on -
probably to the GNAT Programming Studio or a different programming
language - who knows... So the question is indeed: how to become a
maintainer?
- If you have suggestions for patches or enhancements to the source
and/or runtime files of Vim, submit them to Bram Moolenaar <
[EMAIL PROTECTED] >. He may or may not include them into the next
"official" sources, or maybe the ones after that.
I was hoping there is a way without unduly stuffing Brams E-Mail inbox...
Martin
PS: Take some getting used to: If you click "answer" the mail goes to the
original author and not to the mailing list...
--
Martin Krischik
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
