Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 02:37:45 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nvi maintainer? Message-ID: <20010708093745.DB2303811@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20010708032002.D97456@bohr.physics.purdue.edu>
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Will Andrews wrote:
> [ moving from developers@ to arch@ ]
>
> On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 12:51:55AM -0700, Jason Evans (jasone@canonware.com)
wrote:
> > This unfortunately means that FreeBSD will not be able to use the next
> > release of nvi as part of the base system. In other words, we're going to
> > have to fork nvi. Yuck.
>
> OR... import Vim and get rid of nvi? :-)
>
> http://www.vim.org/
> What do you say? 8)
I'm beginning to wonder.. The real question is whether it is a faithful
enough drop-in replacement for nvi. I'll alias it on some of my machines
and see if it bites me or not.
The next thing is that moving a port to the base system usually has a
pretty chilling effect on the package.. Is that going to OK with regular
vim users who are used to having a dynamic, regularly updated port?
Cheers,
-Peter
--
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