Around Sunday, December 13, 2009 2:53 PM, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On 13/12/09 23:07, Suresh Govindachar wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> It would help if the items listed on the "vim-patches" page >> mentioned any restrictions on OS >> http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/web/vim-patches >> >> Thanks, >> >> --Suresh >> > > It would, though in some cases it's quite obvious from the > description: > > "Using Vim as editor within MS Visual Studio" is useless without > MS Visual Studio (which I suppose means MS-Windows) while vimGDB > means yu debug with gdb (and probably compile with gcc) which > can mean either a Unix-like installation (including, I presume, > Mac OS X), or MinGW or maybe Cygwin on a W32 system. Similarly, > "Console cygwin Vim using W32 clipboard" is quite obviously for > one particular platform only. > > Apart from the three above-mentioned patches, I expect that the > other ones on that page are probably OS-agnostic (but I could be > wrong). If there are any more restrictions, I agree that the > patch descriptions ought to mention them.
vimGDB is the specific one I am not sure about -- for a long time, it was only for true unix systems (not mingw, not cygwin, /perhaps/ not even for "unix within windows via virtual-wares such as VMWare"). Has this changed? --Suresh -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
