[haiku-development] Re: Vim episodes. VI. The Packages.

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:53:07 +0200 CEST

> > The other eventual disadvantage would be needed customizations
> > (like
> > handling attributes in "mv" and "cp"), and/or testing of newer
> > versions.
> > IMO, needing to install more packages would be acceptable as long
> > as it
> > would be done automatically when building Haiku (and if we maybe
> > had a
> > target that resolves all such dependencies without actually
> > building
> > Haiku).
>
> If such a change has an immediate benefit and is well tested, like I
> presume the vim change is, I would be ok with it. However at this
> time, I
> would be against doing such changes just for the sake of moving stuff
> out
> of the Haiku source tree without any other immediate benefit besides
> reducing build time. There is no problem in doing this later, after
> we have
> released alpha/1.

Plus it complicates making a useable build for other platforms...

WTF with vim anyway... :|

François.

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