On 09/11/08 21:45, sc wrote: > On Sunday 09 November 2008 1:18 pm, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > [snip] >> There was an error in patch 7.2.027 (corrected in 7.2.030 and improved >> in 7.2.031) which caused compile errors. If you upgrade to the current >> source it ought to work. > > for whatever reason, svn is lagging behind posted patches -- if, like me, > Xavier is waiting on svn, he is stuck at 7.2.28 (since Nov 6) > > this is fine for us, but if a newbie comes along expecting to build the > latest and greatest vim by following instructions, he's going to wind up > with sources that won't build -- not good, unless he has the perseverence > to browse this group -- what he'll use to find Xavier's kind response to my > whining I'm not sure, I just hope the experience doesn't turn him into > an emacs user > > sc
Vim SVN is always lagging (sometimes by a week or two) behind CVS. OTOH the patches appear on the FTP server (and, I think, on CVS which I don't use) about as fast as they are published on vim_dev. I'm not sure about A-A-P but I think it uses CVS too. So it's just a question of which instructions to follow. On Windows, a newbie doesn't need to build Vim himself (he can just grab Steve Hall's "cream-less" Vim distributions on sourceforge) so the question arises mostly on Unix-like systems. As shown on my HowTo page, what I use is FTP for code and rsync for runtimes: this way I remain up-to-date. In the rare cases when the FTP site has a hiccup and the patches don't appear there in timely fashion, I grab the vim_dev post and check that it has "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit" (or 7bit). Quoted-printable is not as easy, it must be "doctored" by hand, but it's doable. Best regards, Tony. -- Friends, Romans, Hipsters, Let me clue you in; I come to put down Caesar, not to groove him. The square kicks some cats are on stay with them; The hip bits, like, go down under; so let it lay with Caesar. The cool Brutus Gave you the message: Caesar had big eyes; If that's the sound, someone's copping a plea, And, like, old Caesar really set them straight. Here, copacetic with Brutus and the studs, -- for Brutus is a real cool cat; So are they all, all cool cats, -- Come I to make this gig at Caesar's laying down. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
