Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:32:56 -0700 (PDT) From: "Peter A. Castro" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin survey: Next vim version with perl support? In-Reply-To: <20030430083411.GR19711@cygbert.vinschen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 or "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/