Tony Mechelynck, 12.02.2009: > > On 11/02/09 03:35, Markus Heidelberg wrote: > > But why this "extra" and the distinction between Unix and non-Unix at all? > > > > Markus > > Because if you are on a Unix-like OS, you can get a functional Vim by > omitting everything that's not for Unix, including downloading the > extra.tar.gz archive. Currently the source is divided among 3 archives: > > ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.2.tar.bz2 > ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/extra/vim-7.2.extra.tar.gz > ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/extra/vim-7.2.lang.tar.gz > > All three together contain exactly one copy of every 7.2.0 source file, > and that's what I recommend downloading regardless of platform, if you > want to download Vim and keep it up via ftp (as I do). But IIUC you can > omit the extra archive on Unix (if, maybe, you don't use out-of-the-way > rarely-used features) (and the lang archive if you want only a strictly > en-US version). In that case, "extra" patches would be for files you > haven't downloaded. IIUC that's what the RedHat developers do, and > that's why the Vim builds they distribute show a number of "missing" > numbers in the "Included patches" line of their :version output.
I know how to handle the separate "extra" and "lang" packages and that you should be able to omit them, it's done so in Buildroot. But my question was, why they exist in the first place instead of creating a single package. It makes it more complicated and error-prone and leads to strange workaround patches with "non-extra part for x.y.z" or "extra part for x.y.z) in the subject. Look at patch 7.1.283, this should be a non-extra part, but there is a change in a line with win_socket_id. In Buildroot this patch is not used, although it's a non-extra patch, because it has two failed hunks. You cannot totally distinguish between Unix and non-Unix when they both share the source code base. It can always happen, that a non-extra patch depends on an extra patch due of the context. I haven't seen any project, which unnecessarily adds this extra level of complexity. Markus --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
