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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1
- From: Björn Kautler <Bjoern at Kautler dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 12:18:49 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1
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Hi Frank,
I don't have a problem with being mean.
Everyone makes mistakes.
I just wonder that it gets broken silently without obvious (to me) reason
and a question regarding it and with two proposed solutions just stays
ignored while it would be very easy to fix.
Regards
Björn
2013/12/9 Frank Fesevur <ffes@users.sourceforge.net>:
> 2013/12/7 Björn Kautler:
>> And it is ok and accepted that such a patch breaks the functionality?
>
> Apparently that depends on the maintainer.
>
> One maintainer does his best not to break existing installations:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-12/msg00059.html
>
> And another introduces a new version
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-05/msg00163.html that breaks existing
> installations (see last line of announcement: removed alternatives)
> leaving people wonder why their vim doesn't work as expected (search
> the archives back in May and June).
>
> So cgf was right: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJM
>
> Regards,
> Frank
>
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