Christian MICHON, 12.02.2009: > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Markus Heidelberg > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > if I recall well, originally, Bram needed to have these to fit in a > 1.44Mb floppy. when they became too big, he had to make a split.
OK, seeing even more splitted packages for 6.x (-rt1 -rt2 -src1 -src2), this seems to be the reason. However since 7.x, the unix packages aren't splitted up into separate floppy-fitting packages any more, but the distinction between unix/extra/lang remains. > note that my git repo on github is made of vim+extra into 1 product. > I did not include the lang package. Oh, what was the reason? Markus --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
