[arch-general] vim runtime woes

[Jan Steffens]

The tags only go up to v7-2-325. Newer versions are untagged. :(

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens at 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 The vim runtime that can be retrieved via rsync is outdated.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
>