Georg Dahn wrote:

> --- Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Subversion is already working, Edward Fox takes care of that.
> 
> Yes, of course, I am getting the sources from there and it works very
> fine.
> 
> I might be wrong, but as I understood it, Subversion is just a mirror
> of CVS. That is, the developement of Vim still runs with CVS, while
> Subversion, which gets updated daily at night, is just a second
> possibility to get the sources. The reason, why you did not switch to
> Subversion for developement, was the near release of Vim 7. Maybe this
> has changed in the meantime, but that's my state of knowledge.

Reason 1: Switching tools takes time and always has the risc of
introducing a new problem.  Especially when the tool has a zillion
options.

Reason 2: Still need to update CVS for the people that need to use it.
Still hoping it comes back to life soon.

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