Dear Bram, Now that there is no longer pressure to quickly cram everything in to avoid patchlevel 1000 and up (too late), shouldn't the regex engine stuff and the flurry of pythoniana be moved into a 7.4beta branch, or vim-experimental branch or something like that?
There is just so much build failure and crash-or-hang-after-building going on as a result of both of these recent flurries. The stability of my workflow hinges now on setting 're=1' in my .vimrc. I suspect many others are doing the same, which means we are not testers of the new regex engine---in which case we shouldn't have to deal with the crashes and hangs surrounding a severely buggy new feature (one that as of yet not only provides no advantage over its predecessor, but performs significantly worse, and looks like it will be a long time before it constitutes an improvement). It's not an option to just stop doing 'hg pull -u' until the Bug Swarm goes away, because other patches that aren't related to regex or Python are being interspersed. -Manny -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
