Vim9 in Slackware-15.0
Now that Vim9 is out, but stable versions of Slackware generally only get security patches, what's the future of Vim9 in Slackware-15.0, how will it happen?
Will Pat make an exception and bump it to Vim9 in 15.0 if it behaves well for a while in -current? Will Vim9 rather be provided as extra/ package a la llvm in 14.2? Will it be rather possible to install Vim9 alongside Vim8? Will it appear on SBo and make its way into next stable Slackware version through -current? |
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You can just grab the source directory from -current and build it on 15.0 yourself. I did this for a few years during the 14.2->15.0 transition. I haven't yet restarted the practice because 15.0 isn't that old. Maybe I'll reconsider since Vim9 is now released. But actually the version of Vim in Slackware 15.0 (8.2.4649) isn't all that different from Vim 9.0:
https://www.vim.org/vim90.php Quote:
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Vim 9.0 is now available in Slackware-current.
I've built both vim and gvim packages on Slackware-15.0 using sources from https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackw...source/ap/vim/. However for the moment it is necessary to correct *.SlackBuild scripts - the Vim version (VIMBRANCH) inside is incorrect - 8.2 (should be 9.0) and scripts try to get source from github instead of using available *.tar.lz archive. |
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https://git.slackware.nl/current/tre...SlackBuild#n26 Code:
VIMBRANCH=9.0 Code:
if [ -r vim-${VIMBRANCH}*.tar.?z ]; then # if there's a source archive already, use the version number from it: And here is the only change made to vim.SlackBuild: https://git.slackware.nl/current/dif...ed604115aede58 Code:
diff --git a/source/ap/vim/vim.SlackBuild b/source/ap/vim/vim.SlackBuild |
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Neither direct download of *.SlackBuild's resolved that problem. However it's quite possible that the mirror I've got sources from was not yet fully updated. For the moment I also get *.SlackBuilds with correct VIMBRANCH=9.0. Good to know that was just my "problem" though. |
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