Subject: Re: Cygwin survey: Next vim version with perl support?
From: Danilo Turina <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:15:51 +0200
Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin

[ ]  Yes, please add perl support to the next Cygwin vim release.

[X]  No, go away with that.

[ ]  What's vim?

It seems a very strong constraint for Cygwin, that for its own nature 
(unlike a full Linux distro) can and must have a high granularity in 
installation (i.e. with vim, but without perl).

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.
> 
> However, it adds a perl dependency to vim which means, all vim users
> *must* install perl runtime on their system to be able to use vim.
> 
> I thought it might be a good idea to ask the users (hey, that's you!)
> about their opinion.  It's pretty easy.  If more than 66% of the
> answers is "Yes" it will be in the next version.
> 
> So here's the survey, please everybody just one cross:
> 
> === cut here ===
> 
> 
> === cut here ===
> 
> Corinna
> 

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