[Nix-dev] Can vim 8.0 be included in 16.09

[Wink Saville]

Thanks for the link and I think I understand, but it's beyond my current
experience to do it quickly and correctly. So for now it's probably best to
leave well enough alone :)

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 8:34 AM Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:

> See [1], though I should have wrapped the callPackage call in lowPrio
> (See e.g. [2] for an example of using lowPrio).
>
> [1]:
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/01f571148583bcc85fad1963536a788d828befbf
> [2]:
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/01f571148583bcc85fad1963536a788d828befbf/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix#L1615
>
> Wink Saville <wink at saville.com> writes:
>
> > If you can point to me an example I'll prepare a pull request.
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016, 5:43 AM Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:
> >
> >> We could bring vim 8 to 16.09, as long as it had a separate attribute
> >> and were set lo-prio so only people who explicitly asked for it would
> >> get it.
> >>
> >> Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si> writes:
> >>
> >> > After the branch off (beta release) we only port minor updates and
> >> security
> >> > upgrades. It's a day until the release so we can't do a major vim
> upgrade
> >> > since we risk there are issues and it's an important part of the
> >> ecosystem.
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 5:33 AM, Wink Saville <wink at saville.com>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> What is the criteria for inclusion in 16.09, any possibility we could
> >> >> include 16.09?
> >> >>
> >> >> -- Wink
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