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Vim 7.3/7.4 Support

Asked by cwood06

Would it be possible for IUS to keep vim up to date to the latest version. Right now its 7.4. Most rhel5/6 are vim 7.2

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bharper (bharper) said : 		#1

Hello cwood06,

Thanks for taking the time to contact us with this request. With a new package requests, we evaluate if it would be a good fit for IUS and if it is maintainable with our current resources. I have been looking over Red Hat's and Fedora's SRPMs and all of the vim RPMs for each OS are created from a single RPM. This would include the vim-X11, which is also known as gvim. IUS tries to stay away from GUI apps.

At first look, it appears that Vim does not get updated often, but they release minor updates through patches. The patches are released fairly often:

ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.4/

Unfortunately at this time, I do not feel we could maintain vim given that we are already very short on resources.

-Ben

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