Am 2014-09-02 22:43, schrieb Tim Chase:
PS: I see that you too are running on Debian. I'm curious how you
have your machine set up to run Vim and develop it? Do you have the
vim package installed, and then also occasionally build Vim from
source? And if building your main vim from source, to where do you
install it?
Basically, that is what I am doing. I have cloned the repository into my
home
directory. Then I installed all necessary packages by issuing the
command:
apt-get build-dep vim-gtk
Every now and then, when I think enough patches have been accumulated
(or a certain bug has been fixed), I compile and install my own Vim
using
something like this:
#v+
cd ~/code/vim/src
./configure --with-features=huge --prefix=/home/chrisbra/local
--enable-gui=gtk2
make
make install
#v-
For developing, I usually do not install the binary, I just leave it
in vim/src and test my patches there.
So besides installing my own version which usually come first in my
$PATH, I have a whole bunch of other vim flavors installed like
vim-gnome, vim-tiny, vim-gtk and I can test a certain behaviour with
the older versions by calling /usr/bin/vim.flavor (where flavor is one
of gtk,gnome,tiny, etc and is installed there by the Debian packages).
This is however nothing, I would do on a productive server, as
installing the build-dependencies might install a whole lot of other
packages and plus you need to have admin to be allowed to install
packages.
I'd enjoy running something slightly more recent than
what comes out of the box in Debian Stable, but not enough to
overcome the inertia of shrugging and accepting whatever comes out of
the box with Debian Stable.
As an alternative to building it yourself, you might want to use
backports.
Oh no, they don't have a newer package there for wheezy. Oh Well, that
basically leaves you with self-compiling locally.
Kind regards,
Christian
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