A.J.Mechelynck wrote: >> 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. That used to be the case (before vim 7). I was the latest person who pushed the patches through to cvs. I got them the same time everyone else did, and had scripts that would push them through to CVS. Now Bram is maintaining CVS himself, which is probably why the runtime files don't get maintained regularly, since he's not the one that regularly does that. I had the same kind of problem when maintaining CVS for vim 6. I tried updating the runtime files, and would occasionally get a patch that wouldn't apply, because something did get patched in a runtime file. Dave
