Hi Bram! On So, 11 Apr 2010, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> Hello Vim users! > > It has been a long time since the last release: Vim 7.2 was released in > August 2008. There have been many patches, but not everybody will use > them. It's about time for 7.3! > > I will try to include a few patches that have been pending for a while. > I don't have much time available, thus I will only include things that > take a few hours of my time. That basically means patches that are > ready to be included. > > I will check the voting list to see what the most popular features are: > http://www.vim.org/sponsor/vote_results.php > > One thing that I will certainly do is improve the MS-Windows installer. > I recently installed Vim on a new laptop and it didn't work very well. > More and more people are using Windows 7. I think that taking Window XP > as the minimal platform will work well. I hope we can make installing > Vim on MS-Windows as simple and reliable as possible. > > I also plan to drop the split in "lang" and "extra" archives. The > burden to have several feature sets is no longer justified by the > slightly smaller distribution. Putting everything together makes things > a lot simpler. > > Mercurial is going to be the primary method for distribution. I'll > drop CVS, it slows me down too much. Someone else might be able to > mirror the Mercurial repository in CVS, like it's done for Subversion. > > I hope to bring out a first beta version by the end of May. That gives > everybody time to send me updated and polished patches and runtime > files. I need to have these halfway May, I also need some time to > integrate everything. > > It would also be nice if we can update the spell files. Volunteers > wanted! See $VIMRUNTIME/spell/README.txt, the "MAINTAINING A LANGUAGE" > section. Are you considering any patches from http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/web/vim-patches for inclusion? regards, Christian -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
