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

Shea Levy shea at shealevy.com
Thu Sep 29 17:34:25 CEST 2016


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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