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Re: Cygwin survey: Next vim version with perl support?


On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> a new vim version (6.2) is due soon.  One guy asked me off-list, if
> I could release Cygwin's vim with integrated perl support.  It's
> a simple build option which apparently works flawlessly since Cygwin
> is using perl 5.8.0.
[snip]
> === cut here ===
> 
> [ ]  Yes, please add perl support to the next Cygwin vim release.
> 
> [X]  No, go away with that.
> 
> [ ]  What's vim?
> 
> === cut here ===

While having extra features in a given utility is nice, it would be
ashame if said utility ended up requiring a "metric-butt" load of other
things just to supply that one feature (such is the case for most any
Linux distro based on RPM :).  Another feeling is that if said feature
caused the utility to become unstable as a result of the feature being
unstable, then that to could be a reason to not enable it by default.
Don't sacrafice the stability of existing tools for the sake of having
the latest wiz-bang feature.  Just my $0.02. 

-- 
Peter A. Castro <doctor@fruitbat.org> or <Peter.Castro@oracle.com>
	"Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood


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