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diff --git a/MAINTAIN.md b/MAINTAIN.md index 7cdf3d61ad..51e4fc722a 100644 --- a/MAINTAIN.md +++ b/MAINTAIN.md @@ -113,6 +113,11 @@ should be stated explicitly and publicly. Third-party dependencies ------------------------ +For some dependencies we maintain temporary "forks", which are simply private +branches with a few extra patches, while we wait for the upstream project to +merge the patches. This is done instead of maintaining the patches as (fragile) +CMake `PATCH_COMMAND` steps. + These "bundled" dependencies can be updated by bumping their versions in `cmake.deps/deps.txt`. Some can be auto-bumped by `scripts/bump_deps.lua`. @@ -124,9 +129,11 @@ Some can be auto-bumped by `scripts/bump_deps.lua`. * [libiconv](https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv) * [libuv](https://github.com/libuv/libuv) * [libvterm](http://www.leonerd.org.uk/code/libvterm/) + * Downloading from the original source is unreliable, so we use our [mirror](https://github.com/neovim/libvterm) instead. * [lua-compat](https://github.com/keplerproject/lua-compat-5.3) * [tree-sitter](https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter) * [unibilium](https://github.com/neovim/unibilium) + * The original project [was abandoned](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/10302), so the [neovim/unibilium](https://github.com/neovim/unibilium) fork is considered "upstream" and is maintained on the `master` branch. * [treesitter parsers](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/7e97c773e3ba78fcddbb2a0b9b0d572c8210c83e/cmake.deps/deps.txt#L47-L62) ### Vendored dependencies |