On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Fernando de Oliveira <[email protected]> wrote: > Em 25-07-2013 12:37, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: >> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Fernando de Oliveira >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, Bruce, >>> >>> (I am addressing you, because last update was your work, after we >>> discussed a little.) >>> >>> Vim 7.4a BETA is out, thus, 7.3 is not being patched any more, last one >>> being 1314 for some time, now (book is at 524): >> >> I think waiting for 7.4 is reasonable. > > OK. > >> If there some substance that you think >> we need, then we can update the patch but vim is one of those packages that >> we need to keep in sync between LFS and BLFS. > > The only thing I noticed is that bash is maintained at latest patch and > other packages are upgraded just to keep up to the latest. The way vim > is maintained is weird. So, I think, it was just a question of consistency.
I think that's not needed either. Matt usually does that, but I can live without them. Vim is slightly more of a problem because it is in both LFS and BLFS, > Other distributions do regular updates. Having said that, I understand > it is a PITA to summarize individual patches to a(very) large single one. > > For my personal use, I learned to use vim because it was the default > editor in LFS, and noticed that gvim is now my preferred, because it > keeps the terminal free for other uses. Try using konsole. You don't need to run the KDE window manager. It runs great in an xfce based system. The tabs allow you to move around without another window. Sometimes I'll have 10 pr more bash instances running at once, but only two instances of konsole. On my normal system I usually have mail, browser, and two konsole instances running without needing to overlap the windows. > For may use, I prefer just to apply individual upstream patches in > numerical order and had done that last week or so. But I decided > yesterday to produce an aggregated one for the book, just for > consistency sake and to save your time :-( I'd do that if it looked like it would take a while for the new vim to be released. > Anyway, after 7.4, if you wish, I can keep producing regular patches, > monthly, may be, for LFS/BLFS. Well, we have a 6-month cycle for LFS. Perhaps it would be reasonable to do it every three months and sooner if there is something in particular that's needed. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
