On 28/02/09 12:06, Markus Heidelberg wrote:
> Tony Mechelynck, 28.02.2009:
>> On 28/02/09 11:34, Markus Heidelberg wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> This debate is going nowhere. You won't change your mind, and neither
>> shall I, so I'm shutting up.
>
> OK, do so, without having responded to the main argument a single time,
> although I've reminded you. It seems you are running out of arguments.
> Please put down your anti-git attitude and accept its usefulness,
> at least in the case of the runtime updates.
>
> Markus
What main argument? That I should believe in git the way others believe
in God? Well, I don't. What I have satisfies me -- and in the case of
patches to the official runtime files, sooner or later (sometimes even
before the patch is published) the official runtime repositories will
acquire them, so that isn't a problem. _Un_official patches to runtime
files, OTOH, should never be done under $VIMRUNTIME but brought out of
it: in the case of *.vim files they should be moved, in modified form,
to some tree early in 'runtimepath' so they will override the official
file of the same name, and in the case of helpfiles, new helpfiles
should be written, with new filenames, containing only the differences,
and they should be put, not into $VIMRUNTIME/doc but into the doc/
subdir of some other 'runtimepath' tree. This procedure is compatible
with all possible ways of updating runtime files, while yours requires
converting to git. Well, I believe in plurality of upgrade methods the
way I believe in plurality of Windows compilers, in plurality of methods
to achieve a given goal within Vim, or, outside of Vim, in plurality of
human languages or in plurality of religious creeds. In the case of
religion, I regard myself as a deist after having long been an agnostic,
but I believe in liberty of religion: practice your own religion the way
you want to, let me practice mine the way I do, and if the next guy
wants to practice no religion at all, let's let him do so. Someday I'll
tell you Aesop's fable "The Blind Men and the Elephant" and how I apply
it to theologians (including amateur ones, i.e., everyday people) and God.
Best regards,
Tony.
--
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a
reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating
the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for
independence.
-- Charles A. Beard
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