advertisement in packaged software

[Stanislav Ochotnicky]

Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> writes:

> On 2014-02-12, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
>> Le mercredi 12 février 2014 à 07:11 -0500, Matthew Miller a écrit :
>>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:08:20PM +0000, Petr Pisar wrote:
>>> > > Are there any existing packages that already do that?
>>> > vim advertises ICCF to make a donation for children in Uganda.
>>>
>>> Even leaving aside the whole charity / good cause vs. selling consumer goods
>>> aspect, I think a message about donations buried in the help is also a
>>> completely different case.
>>
>> On Fedora, it is in the help.
>> On Debian, it is directly on the start when you open a empty file.
>>
>> So I am not sure which one is the default, there is no obvious patchs to
>> enable or disable it in our packages and on Debian side.
>>
> Maybe out-dated localization. I can see the text at welcome screen in
> cs_CZ.UTF-8 locale in Fedora, although there is nothing like that in
> en_US.UTF-8 locale.

It's actually a bit more fun. Part of welcome screen is randomized :-)
Alternating text:
1. Become a registered Vim user!
2. Sponsor Vim development!
3. Help poor children in Uganda!

With pointers for each alternative

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Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky at redhat.com>
Software Engineer - Developer Experience

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