On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Renato Fabbri <[email protected]> wrote: > vim commit messages are tagged with 8.0.1173 (last digit being incremented at > each commit) > while git pull reports 8.0.1257. > > Are these the stable versions? > Which of these are the correct numbering and why do they differ? > > Also, are there alpha and beta versions and how to reach them. > > Best and cheers, > R.
AFAIK, the latest Vim "bleeding-edge" state-of-the-art Vim version is 8.0.1257 and the latest not-for-tags commit says "patch 8.0.1257: no test for fix of undefined behavior". This was https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/2973daafe1732963b8924cb9df53c608804d66b3 — I suppose this is the latest alpha, or maybe beta, if there is one. By compiling and installing this version, then running it, the startup splash screen (or the :intro command) tells me this is "version 8.0.1257". I'm not sure what the "latest stable" version of Vim would be at this point in time. I would guess no earlier (but maybe later) than 8.0.0, though the current version distributed by openSUSE Linux is still 7.4.326. I'm all for the latest development version but YMMV; however when reporting a bug, users are of course advised to check first if the bug is still present with all known patches installed. You can see at any time a one-line description of all 8.0 patches so far by browsing to http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/8.0/ Best regards, Tony. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" 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.
