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The future of Vim builds for Windows

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Submitted ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨tux0r@feddit.org⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://groups.google.com/g/vim_dev/c/FmOKEAUzKWo

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  • JaymesRS@piefed.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No one even uses Vim anymore, you should just switch to Wordpad. It’s far superior cause you can type in bold and italics.

    😎

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    • tux0r@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I use Emacs.

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    • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The WordPad that was recently discontinued?

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    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I remember dropping stink bombs in the schoolyard

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  • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I will stop distributing Vim builds. After all, there are “official” nightly builds for Windows, built with an inefficient toolset, but “good enough” for most people. (Mine are entirely ignored on the Vim website. I can imagine that they just don’t care about people like me. That’s the only reasonable explanation.)

    Can you explain what you mean here, emphasis mine for what I’m referring to?

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    • Sidhean@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you choose to read it entirely literally, they're not wrong. It's pretty reasonable that they wouldn't link to every fork(?) of Vim.

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      • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The only reasonable explanation for VIM not linking to a random guys build of VIM using his own toolchain that they haven’t vetted is “because they don’t care about people like him”?

        Thats pretty reasonable?

        Idk, language has meaning and I don’t read that as anything but a thinly veiled complaint tbh.

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    • Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What do you mean by “you?” The Vim dev himself isn’t here.

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      • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This is a email to the mailing list by OP.

        They aren’t the VIM dev, they aren’t official, the question here is “who cares if you stop building your own VIM”?

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      • Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Aren't þey? tux0r is boþ þe OP's handle (@tux0r@feddit.org) and also þe legal name of þe person who does þe vim builds.

        Why do you þink þey aren't þe same person?

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What’s wrong with the official nightly builds for Windows?

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    • tux0r@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’re not built with the latest libraries, IIRC not even MSVC.

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  • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Couldn’t they just use a Windows VM on Linux to run the build tests?

    Not that I care, the only vim I use occasionally is under MSYS64 (I think… maybe it’s just plain vi).

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