A.J.Mechelynck wrote: >Suresh Govindachar wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have just found out that while the runtime directory is >> periodically updated on the ftp site, it is not committed to >> the cvs repository. >> >> What is the reason for not committing runtime files into cvs? >> >> I see some comment about runtime files not having patches; but >> committing to cvs does not require creating a patch; one can >> just command cvs to commit a local directory to the repository. > > I don't know exactly; but I think the various repositories > (rsync, FTP, CVS, SVN) are not maintained by the same people. I > think CVS and SVN use the FTP site as a "master" with automated > updates (but not every day), so that the FTP updates "trickle > down" to the CVS/SVN repositories after a delay of a few days > or weeks.
I thought Bram (and only Bram) maintained the cvs repository; and that all other repositories, such as svn, are "copies" of the cvs repository. Anyway, even though the .c and .h files in the svn repository change, the runtime files in the svn repository are not changing -- at least netrw seems to be stuck at v98. --Suresh
