On Sun, 2013-07-28 at 20:43 -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote:

> But I have to say that I like vim/gvim, only
> dislike the way it is maintained, displaying a *new version with x.y.z*
> in the site, but only providing an original version x.y tar ball that
> can be several years old and individual 1 to z patches. This is
> misleading, for that, LFS/BLFS is always behind, Fedora and Arch are
> sometimes years ahead of us, thousands of patches ahead.

It is my understanding that those 'patches' simply represent individual
commits against Vim's equivalent of 'svn trunk' or 'cvs head' or 'git
master' - i.e. by applying the patches we'd effectively be running the
latest development version.  When this was pointed out to us, as it's a
bit of an odd use of the word 'patch' IMO, we decided to roll back to
the 'stock' 7.3 version with no patches applied.  Given that, I'm really
not that bothered about being years/thousands of patches behind other
distributions.

Regards,

Matt.

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