Re: To be strange or not to be strange...?

Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> [11-03-04 19:48]:
>
>
> On Mar 4, 11:11 am, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to rebuild vim patch by patch starting with the source of
> > the vim version, which was that one which receives patch 7.3.001.
> >
> > I thought that version was 7.2.446.
> >
> > But applying patch 7.3.001 to it (trying: patch -p0 < 7.3.001, patch -i -p0 <
> > 7.3.001, patch -i -p 7.3.001, patch -i -p0 7.3.001) failed.
> >
> > So something screwed up here...may be my version of 7.2.446 is
> > corrupted.
> >
> > Where can I get the source of vim-7.<last pre-7.3.001> WITHOUT
> > compiling it in one go (I read about aap, but this one downloads
> > the newest version an recompiles the whole stuff, which is reasonable
> > for such a tool and really neat -- but unfortunately not what I
> > want... ;)
> >
> > How can I proceed here?
> >
>
> Patch 001 is supposed to be applied to the 7.3 source without any
> patches. Maybe it would be more clearly called 7.3.000.
>
> I *think* you can get this source code from http://www.vim.org/sources.php
> but I have never tried this for Vim 7.3, since I was already using
> Mercurial to get the Vim source at the time of release. It would
> probably be far easier for you not to mess with patches at all. Vim is
> now maintained using Mercurial. You can get a clone of all the source
> code at whatever patchlevel you desire, at http://code.google.com/p/vim
>
> Ben H. addresses some options for using Mercurial to accomplish
> specific tasks in his reply, I won't duplicate them here.
>
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Hi Ben,

ok, this clearifies, why my attempt to patch 7.2.446 with 7.3.001
fails...
But where is patch 7.3.000 to lift 7.2.446 up to 7.3.000?

Anyway...I will user hq now....the only question open right here
is: What is the spelling of the version string to be fed into hg ?

Best regards,
mcc

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