On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 09:19:10AM -0700, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > I am posting this to two lists because Vim is common to both. Of course, > discussion and opinions, if any, could be different in each one. > > While some softwares are rushing new versions even weekly, others stick to a > "main" one and leave the minor versions/corrections in their repositories to > be checked out with git or other softwares, and this is the case of Vim and > MPlayer. > > I have noticed that most distributions are changing to upgrade these more > often, perhaps monthly. > > Some examples with Vim: > > *buntu 7.3.429 > ArchLinux 7.3.515 > Fedora 7.3.515 > Gentoo 7.3.515 > Mageia 7.3.444 > Mandriva devel 7.3.486 > openSUSE Factory 7.3.456 > > Sometimes, they call it version 7.3 "correction-xxx". > > MPlayer has already changed. What do you think about Vim in LFS and/or BLFS, > with a monthly source in Anduin? > In LFS, even more than in BLFS, the preference has always been for released software. We discussed this for vim, probably in the last year, and I thought that we concluded we were going to stick to releases.
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