Vim 7.2 on Ubuntu 8.04

[David Curtis]

Ashish Yadav wrote:
> Is it that big a release?
> 
What? Vim 7.2 or Interpid?
> I thought it's bug fixes only plus floating point support.
> 
> If cygwin can give it why not Ubuntu?
> 
Ubuntu has 6 month release cycles. Intrepid was "frozen" a while ago. So 
the new Vim won't make it into Intrepid unless there are major bug fixes 
over Vim 7.1x, ie. security, etc. File a wishlist bug for packaging into 
the release next spring (but I'm sure the main devels know about it).

If you really need it, ask nicely and somebody might just package it and 
put it up in their PPA. I did a little search for it in Ubuntu packages, 
the PPAs and Debian. I only found a source package of 7.2c in Debian 
experimental. So it looks like nobody has touched it yet. But then 
again, it's a ten day old release from upstream, give the devels a chance...

Dave