Adendum Re: Vim7 on Ubuntu/Kubuntu

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On di, 2006-08-15 at 11:56 +0100, marc wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman said...
> > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 09:51:49PM +0100, marc wrote:
> > > Matt Zimmerman said...
> > > > vim 7 is available in Edgy, and you may propose it to the backports team for
> > > > backporting (dapper-backports).
> > > 
> > > This is a very late reply, but I've only just got round to installing 
> > > it. Thanks very much for gvim7, works like a charm. Can't understand why 
> > > it's not in the main repos.
> > 
> > It is (vim-gnome).
> 
> Isn't that v6? Or It's not clear from the package info which version of 
> vim it is.

The vim/gvim packages in dapper are still vim6 -- vim7 will not be
backported because that would require changes to the source. 3rd party
backparts already exist though -- see
https://launchpad.net/products/dapper-backports/+bug/51261
-- 
Dennis K.

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