Release?

[leungbk]

It's been some months since the last release, and some nice commits have been made since then. It would be great if we could get an updated snapshot.

[halostatue]

A release would be very useful, as sheerun/vim-polyglot#779 points out. It imported new mainline vim files (specifically ft.vim at vim/vim@a2baa73) and it fails to run in the currently released version of MacVim 8.2 (patch 3455). I have a fix in at sheerun/vim-polyglot#780, but it is not clear to me whether this will be accepted as it is changing an upstream file.

[ychin]

Sorry I have been away from MacVim development for a while which is not great. Let me catch up to see if there are glaring issues, and if not, make a release soon.

[sigzero]

Is "soon" still a possibility?

[lifepillar]

As I have started to use Vim9 scripts, MacVim has started to crash because of some bugs in Vim that have been fixed only recently. So, I am stuck using Vim in the terminal. I would really appreciate if a new MacVim release could be pushed forward!

[sigzero]

It was supposed to happen over the weekend. Maybe there were issues.

[eirnym]

@ychin is there anything we can help you with?

[sigzero]

A bunch of runtime files were merged so maybe that is an indication a new version will drop "soon".

[sigzero]

Vim9 is now out. Will MacVim update to it anytime soon?

[halostatue]

I would hope that a final release of MacVim with 8.2 would come out, and then work start on Vim 9 support.

[ychin]

Hi, I'm so sorry for the radio silence in recent months. life has been catching up to me and I was struggling to find time for MacVim, which is something I'm trying to correct and doesn't excuse the hold on the release.

I'm prepping a release now, and one thing I was trying to do is to do a more thorough validation of making sure one year's worth of Vim updates didn't break anything, but that's probably misguided compared to just pushing out a release. Can people who have been syncing and building MacVim give me a basic thumbs up/down on whether they see any glaring bugs that need to be addressed before I push out a Vim 9 release?

[denisw]

Thanks you @ychin! I built the latest master and gave it a spin. I didn't notice any issues. 👍

[stack]

I did a manual compile as of 286bd68d59d940dab45dbe9afe4dd77fa8810973 and so far so good. No glaring issues that I can see.

[eirnym]

@ychin we'd be happy to test!

Manual tests seems to be working fine ;) push the pre-release if you worry about any additional issues