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 The vim runtime that can be retrieved via rsync is outdated.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