Vim7 on Ubuntu/Kubuntu

[marc]

Matthew Kuiken said...
> marc wrote:
> > At what level? I can live without Linux and use Windows instead. So can 
> > you. I can live without a computer. So can you. I can't live without 
> > heat, food and water. And neither can you.
> >
> > Between those things, we both have a lot of choice.
> >
> > At a professional level, which may be outside your experience, decisions 
> > have to be made, and when a criterion is vim7, then vim6 is not an 
> > option. As I said, this may well be outside your experience.
> >
> > If the answer to the OP is that vim7 is not available on Ubuntu, then 
> > that's fine; I'd just like to know. And, since I have a personal as well 
> > as professional interest in the outcome, I'd like to know the likely 
> > ETA.
> >   

Many thanks for the detailed reply.

> Because of the time based release schedule that Paul pointed out on the 
> Kubuntu list, 6.06 contains the version that it will contain for its 
> lifetime now.  There is a repository called dapper-backports which will 
> contain updated packages for 6.06.  Backports can be requested.  You can 
> read about it here:
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BackportsHowto

Okay, done job - and I took the opportunity to update and clarify the 
above wiki entry while I was discovering what it meant ;-)

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/52539

> An alternative to waiting for a backport would be to enable the edgy 
> repository, install vim7, and disable it again to ensure that nothing 
> else gets accidentally upgraded.

Yup, I'm happy to do all this for myself, but it's no use when rolling 
out to clients. My view on Ubuntu for clients' desktop machines is that 
no funky apt-getedness is tenable - and since I prefer to eat my own dog 
food, I apply the same rules to my machine (or one partition of it).

-- 
Best,
Marc