From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: vim: Update to 8.0.0047. Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 19:12:32 +0200 Message-ID: <87shrgjt33.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87y419zzs1.fsf@duckhunt.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87insdf1ta.fsf@elephly.net> <87lgx8za3s.fsf@duckhunt.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34232) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c0Ai4-0005pQ-Bx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2016 13:12:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c0Ai1-0001mA-89 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2016 13:12:52 -0400 Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com ([74.201.84.163]:21407) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c0Ai0-0001lt-W8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2016 13:12:49 -0400 In-reply-to: <87lgx8za3s.fsf@duckhunt.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Marius Bakke Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Marius Bakke writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Marius Bakke 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?) > > When I sent this, the 0047 release was about an hour old and the > corresponding patch was not yet available on ftp.vim.org. So it seems > to be the other way around. The "vim" organization on Github is endorsed > on vim.org and maintained by Bram Molenaar himself. Ah, cool. This makes all the difference, IMO. >> 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. > > vim-7.4 ended at 2367 patches[0]. 8.0 is currently at 51 (four since > yesterday!), whereas bash has 42, so they are not really comparable. I > think vim would rarely be updated, if it required downloading and > creating potentially hundreds of patch references at once. > > They are also not signed, though we could rely on the MD5SUMS file. > > With this information, do you still think a custom patch importer is > better? I don't really mind either way, but someone needs to make it :) No, you convinced me :) Thanks for your patience! ~~ Ricardo