From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Updating Vim
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 10:45:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160309094544.GA28981@solar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160309091616.GA20945@debian-netbook>
On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 11:16:16AM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> Our current vim package is 2.5 years old, and the current patch set on top of
> it to bring it up to today is ~1500 patches. Interestingly, every. single.
> commit. is tagged in git, so updating to a more recent release is rather easy.
Well, it is not quite a release, I would say, if they simply tag every git
commit and do not even make sure that the tests succeed each time. Normally,
our policy in guix is to follow "official" upstream releases.
Is there a compelling reason to update nevertheless?
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-09 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-09 9:16 Updating Vim Efraim Flashner
2016-03-09 9:39 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-03-09 9:41 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-03-09 9:45 ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2016-03-09 10:35 ` Efraim Flashner
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