Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Danilo Turina <danilo DOT turina AT alcatel DOT it>
Subject: Re: Cygwin survey: Next vim version with perl support?
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:15:51 +0200
Lines: 35
Message-ID: <3EAF9447.4070104@alcatel.it>
References: <20030430083411 DOT GR19711 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
X-Accept-Language: it, en-us, en
In-Reply-To: <20030430083411.GR19711@cygbert.vinschen.de>

[ ]  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
> 



--
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/