Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Monday, May 31, 2021 at 11:50:10 AM UTC-5 Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > > The work on Vim 9 is making progress. Most of the syntax has settled > > down, but there are still a few todo items and we need to make sure > > everything works well before we can launch it. You can read more about > > it in the Vim9 help: > > https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/doc/vim9.txt > > > > It's hard to plan this, best I can say is that it still takes a few > > months. Once we release it we want to stay backwards compatible again, > > so as not to break your Vim 9 plugins. We better make sure we get it > > right, rather than rushing it out. > > Have you considered making a release candidate? There is a release candidate every day on github. > If you do want to try to get it right it's better to invite as many people > as possible to make comments, and most vim developers are not subscribed to > the mailing list. Making a public announcement of a release candidate will > ensure many eyes will be looking at the proposal. You make a lot of assumptions. Anyway, most people find their way to github and can grab the latest version. That has worked fairly well so far. > If you don't there's a good chance useful suggestions will come too late. That's always a problem with "releases", people just wait until the final release before trying it out. Every submitted change is a release, in a way. -- I just planted an Algebra tree. It has square roots. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// \\\ \\\ sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/202105312302.14VN2c312156639%40masaka.moolenaar.net.
