[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.003-1

[Thorsten Kampe]

* Corinna Vinschen (Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:24:33 +0200)
> On Aug 19 15:17, David Rothenberger wrote:
> > On 8/19/2010 11:54 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > I have updated the version of vim on cygwin.com to 7.3.003-1.
> > > 
> > > This is an update to the new upstream version 7.3, including the
> > > first three patchsets.  Cygwin Vim builds from the vanilla sources.
> > 
> > After updating, /usr/bin/vi no longer exists. Is this intentional?
> 
> No.  If you look into the vim-7.3.003-1 tar archive, you'll see that
> there's still a symlink called vi:
> 
> bash$ tar tvjf vim-7.3.003-1.tar.bz2 usr/bin
> drwxr-xr-x corinna/vinschen  0 2010-08-19 13:24 usr/bin/
> lrwxrwxrwx corinna/vinschen  0 2010-08-19 13:24 usr/bin/vi -> vim-nox.exe
> -rwxr-xr-x corinna/vinschen 2084 2010-08-19 13:23 usr/bin/vimtutor
> lrwxrwxrwx corinna/vinschen    0 2010-08-19 13:24 usr/bin/ex -> vim-nox.exe
> -rwxr-xr-x corinna/vinschen 13838 2010-08-19 13:24 usr/bin/xxd.exe
> -rwxr-xr-x corinna/vinschen 1548814 2010-08-19 13:23 usr/bin/vim-nox.exe
> 
> I don't know why it disappeared for you.

Weird. On two installations (Windows XP and 2008 R2) "vi" and "ex" 
exist. On my main Windows 7 it's gone (not that I ever used "vi" for 
"vim"). I got a warning during setup that setup.exe could not unpack 
these files because they were "in use" (but they weren't) and after 
clicking on "retry" the installation continued.

In setup.log.full I can see:
unlink F:\cygwin\bin/vi
unlink F:\cygwin\bin/ex
[...]
Installing file cygfile:///usr/bin/vi
io_stream::mklink (cygfile:///usr/bin/vi->cygfile://vim-nox.exe)
Installing file cygfile:///usr/bin/ex
io_stream::mklink (cygfile:///usr/bin/ex->cygfile://vim-nox.exe)

...but that's excactly what I see on the two other installations, too. 
The only difference I can see is that the other installations are on a 
NTFS volume and this on is FAT32.

Thorsten


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