The vim port needs a refresh

[John Marino]

On 5/25/2013 03:32, Jimmy wrote:
> Perhaps one might ask the VIM developers themselves to provide a
> tarball/zip of the patches along with the individual patches in
> their distributions, pointing out the huge number of patches that
> piled up for this particular VIM release and the problems it caused
> trying to download them individually...
> (if they're going to wait for another 2 1/2 years / 1000+ patches
> for their next release, they might consider it)

As I previously mentioned, Bram Moolenaar said on 9 May that the patch 
level for 7.3 will not exceed 1000 patches. ( 
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_announce/ZWWgK9aXQ2Y )

Seeing how they apparently refuse to have normal releases and think 900 
patches is normally, I don't see how Vim developers would ever create a 
special tarball.  If they were willing to do that, they'd just do normal 
releases, right?  This suggestion to talk to Vim is destined to go down 
in flames, especially as version 7.4 is imminent (beta scheduled for end 
of May).