Hi Tim! On So, 18 Jan 2015, Tim Lebedkov wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 18. Januar 2015 14:36:52 UTC+1 schrieb Bram Moolenaar: > > Tim Lebedkov wrote: > > > > > my patch "Switch the NSIS installer to MUI2" > > > (https://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/detail?id=279) was not merged in > > > 2 months. This is clearly too slow for 20 lines of changes. > > > > > > Were there any discussions about how this could be improved? > > > > > > A solution to this problem could be for Bram to delegate some work to > > > other developers. There could be "lieutenants" responsible for > > > different parts of the source code of different operating systems. > > > These "lieutenants" could check the incoming patches and forward them > > > to Bram so that he could merge faster and without any fears. > > > > Right, for a patch like this, which requires trying it out on a few > > different Windows machines, it would be very helpful to get feedback. > > > > There have been other changes to the Windows installer, which might make > > it work better. However, this kind of change can fail in 1 out of 100 > > installations, especially on old PCs. Thus I'm careful not to change > > too much. > > > > Perhaps changing the installer could be an item for Vim 7.5. Since > > there are so many patches for 7.4 now. > > So you are actually saying that this patch may be applied some time in 2016 > (and may be not). With this rate I will not be able to change 1000 lines of > code during the rest of my life. I hope, you understand that I cannot accept > this. > > What is your opinion about changing the development model? Should it be > changed or do you think that everything is OK? For a beginning, you could maintain a separate installer so that people can actually try that it works and you get feedback. Then you can also gradually change further things, if this is required. BTW: What kind of 1000 lines code change you are talking about? Best, Christian -- Was jeder Tag will, sollst du fragen, was jeder Tag will, wird er sagen. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- -- 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/d/optout.
