-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
I've setup a gentoo overlay for vim and vim related ebuilds. This includes the most recent patches for vim, plus some miscallenous patches and usual gentoo patchset. * why the hell? Well I thought there may be users out there who want to try the latest vim version without going through the patch procedure. This can let the upstream fixes become avaliable in a shorter time. We can also iron out possible bugs before the version gets in the gentoo tree thus helping gentoo developers and of course the whole thing is fun :) * what do you mean with most recent patches? Every vim minor version is a patch fixing a certain issue. You can have a look at them at ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.0/ . Right now the latest vim version in the gentoo tree is vim-7.0.235 which means vim-7.0 plus patches 1-235 applied. * how long does it take you to update to a new version? Well upgrading vim is trivial so as soon as a new patch is released I check if there are any problems with the gentoo-patchset and our misc patches then I create a new vim-tarball and basically rename the ebuild. Then I have a look if it compiles fine and release it. * how do I know what's new in this version? Go to ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.0/ open the latest patch and read it :) * wtf is miscallenous patches? This is another way an overlay might be helpful. I'll try to support miscallenous patches for vim. Right now for example the vim ebuild in my overlay has a gdb USE flag which applies the vimgdb patch. We can put many nice patches that didn't make into upstream. But these patches will always be applied when certain USE flags are enabled so that a user can always get a vanilla vim - vim-patchset + gentoo-patchset - * you said vim related ebuilds what about them? Yet another way an overlay might be helpful. We can put here ebuilds for new plugins,scripts that haven't made into the gentoo tree yet. * what the hell tell me how to use it oh ok :) copy http://svn.nonlogic.org/?do=view&project=hawking/hawking-overlay&path=/hawking.xml to hawking.xml and add file://path/to/hawking.xml to the overlays directive in /etc/layman.cfg. Then just do layman -a hawking-overlay if you are a paludis user put these in /etc/paludis/repositories/hawking-overlay.conf : location = /path/to/hawking-overlay sync = svn://svn.nonlogic.org/hawking/hawking-overlay master_repository = gentoo ( or whatever you name the official portage tree ) * I want to add a vim script here.. how can i do it? Well I can't give svn access to anyone as I'm not the owner of the service so you just send me an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll add it asap. * ok now what? that's all for now, any thoughts,suggestions,critics welcome... - -- Ali Polatel (hawking) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://hawking.nonlogic.org/ gpg: 0x8E724EDC fp: DBC2 2BC7 95B8 6D6C 8BC3 37EC CA00 CFC1 8E72 4EDC () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGN+AJygDPwY5yTtwRAmprAKCJWC4tbOFacaTKn6TZeuZ6cCsSrwCfTPkN BTgagIdgbIAYSySFQuKOY6M= =whYz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
