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On 2007-05-15, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2007, Gary Johnson wrote:
> 
> > On 2007-05-15, Michael Schaap wrote:
> > >  On 14-May-2007 17:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > I have updated the version of vim on cygwin.com to 7.1-1.
> > >
> > >  Yaakov, if possible, could you perhaps release a corresponding gvim
> > > as well?
> > >  (Upgrading to vim-7.1 breaks gvim-7.0, so there is some amount of
> > >  urgency...)
> >
> > What breaks?  As far as I know, 7.1 contains only bug fixes.
> 
> Directory names.  It's a packaging issue.

Thanks for the clarification.

> FWIW, Corinna and Yaakov, can we change vim to use /usr/share/vim instead
> of the versioned directory?  Since Cygwin only allows one version
> installed at a time, this might be a worthwhile deviation from the
> upstream vim packaging structure...

Except that the standard versioned directory structure also allows 
users to put customizations for all users in /usr/share/vim/vimfiles 
while the distributed files go in /usr/share/vim/vim<version>.  I 
don't see the advantage to changing vim's standard directory 
structure.  Also, I understand that Cygwin doesn't _support_ the 
installation of multiple vim versions, but I don't see why it should 
_disallow_ such installations.

Regards,
Gary

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