Re: vim versions

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Renato Fabbri <renato.fabbri@gmail.com> wrote:
> vim commit messages are tagged with 8.0.1173 (last digit being incremented at each commit)
> while git pull reports 8.0.1257.
>
> Are these the stable versions?
> Which of these are the correct numbering and why do they differ?
>
> Also, are there alpha and beta versions and how to reach them.
>
> Best and cheers,
> R.

AFAIK, the latest Vim "bleeding-edge" state-of-the-art Vim version is
8.0.1257 and the latest not-for-tags commit says "patch 8.0.1257: no
test for fix of undefined behavior". This was
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/2973daafe1732963b8924cb9df53c608804d66b3
— I suppose this is the latest alpha, or maybe beta, if there is one.
By compiling and installing this version, then running it, the startup
splash screen (or the :intro command) tells me this is "version
8.0.1257".

I'm not sure what the "latest stable" version of Vim would be at this
point in time. I would guess no earlier (but maybe later) than 8.0.0,
though the current version distributed by openSUSE Linux is still
7.4.326. I'm all for the latest development version but YMMV; however
when reporting a bug, users are of course advised to check first if
the bug is still present with all known patches installed. You can see
at any time a one-line description of all 8.0 patches so far by
browsing to http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/8.0/


Best regards,
Tony.

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