On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens@gmail.com> wrote:
The vim runtime that can be retrieved via rsync is outdated.
Some of the patches modify the runtime, and some of these changes (e.g. 394) are lost when the runtime is overwritten with the runtime from rsync.
Not using the runtime from rsync at all also misses some updates.
Any thoughts on how to solve this? One option would be to build vim from Mercurial (http://vim.googlecode.com).
I also agree that building from Mercurial might be our best bet here. The vim PKGBUILD is crazy complex as it is, and switching to Mercurial snapshots is probably a cleaner idea.
And it looks like it DOES have tags, so "v7-2-325" would give us vim 7.2 including up to patch 325. Simpler PKGBUILD? Check. More up to date runtime? Check. Less headache to maintain? Check