Hello Yakov,
If I recall correctly, didn't you write the shell script which automatically
patches and installs Vim 7? If so, why not expand on it to allow (optionally)
installing unofficial patches from vim.org as well? Maybe a
'--with-patch=script_id' argument would work?
regards,
Peter
--- Yakov Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Vim patches submitted by external submitters are either
'incorporated' or 'outsude of vim sources'. That's black-and-white.
I thought it's possible to add some intermediate state, where
'experimental-patch' is neither outside of vim nor inside-vim. This
is useful because people can try experimental patches easier,
with clear understandnig that they are trying experimental patches.
It can work as follows.
(BTW I think Vince Negri conceal patch deserves this status.)
It can work as follows. Experimental patch is added as a _feature_
named 'x-*', say 'x-conceal'. It has it's #ifdef, FEAT_X_CONCEAL, and
none of x-* features are built by 'huge' (largest) built. The builder
needs to enable them manually with --enable-x-conceal or similar
configure flag.
To make it very clear that build includes experimental
features, the :version will have line seen from large distance:
CONTAINS EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES *
But then more people can try these experimental patches
and feedback on them, improve them, or report their uselessness.
Yakov
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