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The future of Vim builds for Windows (groups.google.com)
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[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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?

You’re not mirroring, so why would they link your build?

[-] Sidhean@piefed.social 0 points 1 week 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.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week 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.

[-] Sidhean@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, it obviously is a dig. I'm being a little silly. If we assume "people like him" are random maintainers of random builds of things, and we assume only Official Vim Development reasons, the team would have to reason to care about this project. If they meant anything more, they should have said it 🙃

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week 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).

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] tux0r@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] JaymesRS@piefed.world 3 points 1 week 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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