Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2008-01-07, Philip Prindeville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ben Schmidt wrote: >> >>>>> So... is there a tarball that contains everything then? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> There are 3 tarballs. vim-7.1.tar.bz2, vim-7.1-extra.tar.gz, and >>>> vim-7.1-lang.tar.gz. The extra tarballs are under the extra >>>> directory on the ftp server. >>>> >>>> >>> Which is a 'no', in case that wasn't clear. To get everything, >>> you need to get the three tarballs, which are designed to be >>> extracted 'on top of' each other, i.e. their contents get >>> merged together to obtain the whole set of sources. >>> > > >> Ok, never mind. We'll just skip the updates for now then... Having >> multiple tars to unpack just doesn't work well with our build system. >> > > You only have to fetch and unpack them once per major release, so it > shouldn't be a big deal. Everything is configured and built from > the top-level configure and make commands. >
Well, it gets worse: Unix vim is bzip2'd, whereas the language and extras stuff is gzipped. Which makes the script to pull down and build the stuff even more useless, since packages can only specify one uncompression method, etc... -Philip --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
