Ideas for packaging vim syntax files

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, [ISO-8859-1] André Kelpe wrote:

> Am So, den 11.01.2004 schrieb Toshio um 14:48:
> > Hi,
>
> Hi!
>
> > I'm packaging some syntax files for vim to let it do nice
> > indentation/highlighting of the Pyrex language.
>
> Nice idea, this should be done for more of the useful things at
> www.vim.org.
>
> > I have two
> > points where I'm uncertain of what is the best thing to do:
> >
> > 1) I had to edit the installed file:
> > /usr/share/vim/vim62/filetype.vim
> > to add the association of Pyrex filetype to extension.  Anyone
> > know of a safe, portable (across vim versions) way of doing this
> > in the postinstall/preun scripts?
> >
> > Right now I'm using:
> > sed '<PATTERN>' < /usr/share/vim/vim62/filetype.vim
> > but this means I can only upgrade a vim62 series package...
>
> The question is: What versions of vim do you want to support? Why do you
> want to support version < 6.2 if fedora has no such version?


I can see how yum refuses to update next time that vim is updated
to 6.3 and this vim-pyrex thing is not updated yet...

Right now in rawhide the netsnmp package relies on rpm-4.2.  With
the new rpm-4.3, now yum update is broken.

behdad


> André
>