URL:         http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vim/howto/bina.html
URL:         https://www.vim8.org/howto/bina.html (mirror)
Created:     Tue Jun 09 00:00:00 CEST 1998
Last update: Tue Jun 09 19:46:33 CEST 1998

Vim HowTo - Maintaining and Preparing Binaries

Minimal Info - No docs, no syntax files

A vim binary archive should fit onto a floppy - so please do not add documentation or a complete set of syntax files to a vim binary archive. Please note that the docs and the syntax files should be available from the mirror sites as a separate archive. However, some info would be nice, so please add the following (hopefully small) files to your vim binary archive: INSTALL.LOG, README, VERSION

README

Please add some info so people can contact you: Give your name and contact address, and the sites of the archive file:

    NAME    Sven Guckes
    ADDRESS [email protected]
    DIST    http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vim/
    URL http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vim/bin/vim-5.0u.bin-sunos4.tar.gz

INSTALL.LOG

The file INSTALL.LOG should contain a log of the compilation process. This should allow to see possible compiler errors.

        make 2>&1 | tee INSTALL.LOG

VERSION

The file VERSION should conatin the output of the command ":version", so you can have a quick glance at the options that are set or unset with the included binary.

Distribution via WWW - "vim/bin/"

Please make your binaries available as http://www.domain/~user/vim/bin/ and add an index.html with some info. Thanks!

Example:

  http://www.domain/~user/vim/bin/                             Base URL
  http://www.domain/~user/vim/bin/index.html                   Info
  http://www.domain/~user/vim/bin/vim-5.2d-bin-MacOS.tar.gz    binary archive
  http://www.domain/~user/vim/bin/vim-5.2d-bin-Solaris.tar.gz  binary archive