Re: [PATCH] gnu: vim: Update to 8.0.0047.

[ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
>
>> The official vim mirrors only carries major versions and individual
>> patches, no up-to-date releases. This patch changes the source uri to
>> the tagged github releases instead of downloading all 40+ (so far)
>> patches individually.
>>
>> I'm not very happy about changing to a third-party source, but IMO it
>> beats keeping track of the frequent patches. WDYT?
>
> I’m also not happy about using a third-party mirror for vim.  Can we be
> sure that this is updated consistently and in time?  (Is this done
> automatically?)
>
> Guix can handle downloading patches, so there’s really no need for
> switching in my opinion.  “gnu/packages/bash.scm” could be used as a
> reference for how to deal with a large number of patches.
>
> ~~ Ricardo

Last time I looked at the method used in bash.scm it was not
obvious how the method should be used, and from my impression in
irc it wasn't obvious to others when they tried to update bash or
what it was.

If vim gets an equal method, can we please document how the
patches are downloaded (in other words: how you execute the
download of scripts to store) in the module(s) or somewhere else?

In addition to my first message: I think we should not rely too
much on github.com, when it goes down again we have no fallback
solution.
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