On Wed, December 16, 2009 5:12 pm, Tom Link wrote: > Anyway, there seems to be no way to report success/failures with > certain patches in a systematic manner that would allow Bram to get an > adequate overview of how many people use a certain patch with which > version (incl patch level) of vim and how many of those people > experience problems that can be reproduced so that we know for sure > that the problem is actually caused by the patch etc. Otherwise the > patch authors (I didn't contribute a patch so this is just another > "personal theory") probably get frustrated, they abandon vim, they > stop maintaining their patches with the consequence that their patches > are likely to quickly become unusable since the development of vim > continues.
I think it could help, if those working patches from the vim_extended repository could be distributed as a precompiled alpha/testing release of vim. I am sure, this would increase the user base. I must admit, I haven't tested any of the patches from that repository since I am afraid of having to take care of updating myself and since I work on many different systems, it's hard to get it done everywhere. But I think there are many exciting new features, which I'd like to test. So could it be possible to provide a 7.3 testing release which integrates these patches? I would certainly use that release and give feedback. Of course there needs to be a possibility to give feedback to the patch authors/maintainers as well. Maybe the linux distributions could also provide a vim-patched package (similar to how it is done with mutt-patched). James, what do you think, could that be possible for Debian? regards, Christian -- :wq -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
