[oe] [meta-oe] vim 7.3

[Paul Barker]

On 18 April 2013 11:53, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:51:21AM +0100, Paul Barker wrote:
>> 1) vim has new patch releases very often so if I stick with a fixed
>> version we'll fall behind quickly. However the default branch might
>> become vim-7.4 at some point in the future but I'm not sure we want to
>> move to that automatically. There isn't even a vim-7.4 development
>> branch in the upstream repository so that may be a long while away. Do
>> you have any advice on whether I should specify a fixed version or use
>> AUTOREV? It could also be possible to include both a vim_7.3.905.bb
>> file and a vim_hg.bb file.
>
> No AUTOREV in meta-oe, but it's fine to add both
> vim_7.3.905.bb and vim_hg.bb if hg versions have negative
> DEFAULT_PREFERENCE and SRCREV that you can confirm is working (you can change
> it to AUTOREV later in your local.conf if you want).
>

Pretty much every commit to the default branch of vim is released as a
new version (hence .905) so I'll just stick with the single
vim_7.3.905.bb file.

>> 3) There's a vimrc file kept along with the recipe for vim, I can't
>> see much useful in the git history of this file. There's also a
>> vimrc_example.vim file in the runtime files distributed with vim that
>> will keep up-to-date with any changes to syntax or features, should we
>> move to using this?
>
> You mean to use vimrc_example.vim from vim archive instead of our local
> vimrc copy? Sounds good too.
>

Yes that's right. I'll split this change out into a separate patch.

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Paul Barker

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