On 4/27/07, A.J.Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nikolai Weibull wrote: > On 4/27/07, Jonathan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > >> > - Insane? All is relative. We're only at 7.0.233 as of today. FYI, Vim >> > 6.2 went to 532 patches, see http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/ > >> Release early, release often :)
> Isn't that what's being done? We're at 7.0.233. That means that > there's been 233 releases since 7.0. Of course, it all depends on how > you define release.
These 233 "releases" are incremental and source-only. (Steve Hall's precompiled installers for Windows are compiled "in an officially supported way" from "official sources" yet they are still "unofficial".)
Yes, I know, but the point is that Bram doesn't keep the changes to himself until he releases 7.1.
The latest full official release with binaries was 7.0.000. To avail yourself (as I do) of any of these 233 patchlevels to date (for instance, on Linux), you have to, either:
[...] Or let your package system do it for you, as on Gentoo. Thanks Gentoo! :-) nikolai
