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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? 
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Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 02:37:45 -0700
From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
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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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