Thanks for the response I agree about IBM ( I was just posing the question to gain some insight ) thanks for the response
I will try to create some diffs and then post those I think I also found some problems with the configure script for creating a motif-gvim Which enabled xpm ( by mistake ) and also enabled XM-Notebook by mistake Neither of the above exist on z/OS ( I had to manually disable them to get gvim to build successfully ) :) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Taylor Hedberg Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 8:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: z/OS Unix Fixes And Binaries for vim 7.3 Bovy, Stephen, Tue 2012-01-03 @ 15:12:27+0000: > I have published my (fixes) in a verbal fashion on this list > > >> How can I make sure those fixes get merged into the source tree ?? I don't recall the exact format of your contributions, but your best bet would be to submit actual patches against the Vim source tree that Bram could review and apply. If you have only described your changes verbally, then the real work remains to be done. :) > I would also like to donate my efforts (binaries) as a package to be > available for others > > >> How are unix binaries packaged and distributed ?? > > Is there a mechanism for creating and donating a binary installation > package for a unix platform Most non-Macintosh Unix software is provided as source code. Users who expect binary packages typically obtain them in an operating system-specific manner from the maintainers of their OS, who themselves compile them from the upstream sources. I can't see how it would really cause any problems for pre-compiled Vim binaries to be provided for z/OS, but most people just don't expect that means of distribution when it comes to Unix, so I doubt that there's any procedure in place for doing that already, at least with Vim. > Because nroff troff groff are not part of the unix standard thus > ibm has refused to recognize a need to Port and support > > Now (sorry) I have to make a small rant here :) > > When developers use (tools) that are not standard ( is it not > incumbent upon the developer ) to include that (tool) in the install > package ?? > > On windows that has always been the way things are done > > Developers should not (as - su -me) that a nonstandard tool will > always exist on the target installation platform !!! I don't think so. troff may not be specified by POSIX, but it and its variants are nonetheless ubiquitous on Unix systems, to the point that it's not unreasonable, in my opinion, to assume that the user has access to such a utility. z/OS is obviously an exception to this, but I'd personally characterize this purely as a problem with IBM's rather backwards interpretation of Unix rather than as a problem with Vim. After all, virtually any non-trivial software has external dependencies. Gvim on Unix depends on X11, for instance, which is not POSIX-standard either, but I doubt anyone would argue that Bram needs to start bundling X.org server with Vim. This goes doubly for non-essential and purely build-time dependencies like troff for formatting man pages. Is there a reason why you can't just install groff[1] on your system? [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/ -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
