[oe] [meta-oe] vim 7.3

[Martin Jansa]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:53:44AM +0100, Paul Barker wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've had a look at the recipe for vim in meta-oe, it's currently a
> full release behind upstream and applies patches to the 7.2 source to
> get version 7.2.446. We have a recipe which provides mercurial-native
> in meta-oe so we should be capable of pulling the upstream sources
> directly from vim.googlecode.com. We can easily pull a given version,
> I've wrote a recipe to build vim 7.3.875 which I'm going to update to
> the latest version and look at testing over this weekend (it builds
> but I want to do some basic runtime testing).
> 
> If I get this working and it downloads sources via mercurial is it
> likely to be accepted? A quick grep doesn't show any other packages
> using source URLs beginning "hg://".

The plan looks OK to me, vim isn't in many images by default so building
mercurial-native seems like reasonable price for it.

> I've also found that just installing vim doesn't give me everything I
> expect, I also need vim-syntax, vim-help, vim-tutor, vim-vimrc and
> vim-data. I think for most applications where people want to install
> vim over using plain vi they probably want these extra runtime files.
> Is it worth creating a package group to install all these together
> and/or setting RRECOMMENDS for vim?

RRECOMMENDS seems enough to me

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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