On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 10:45:44 +0100 Andreas Enge wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 11:16:16AM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote: > [...] > > 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 > There was something that was not interacting well with my .vimrc, but I just checked with 7.4 and 7.4.963 and there wasn't actually a change. Either I stopped using some plugin that wanted a newer version or I misread it before. "Because its 2 years old" isn't a great reason. There is a list of patches with a 1-liner[1] for what it fixes, so I suppose for that it would be good to have those issues taken care of, and also to have our copy of vim more up-to-date with other distros. [1] ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.4/README -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted