svn commit: r491810 - in head/editors/vim: . files

Adam Weinberger adamw at freebsd.org
Fri Feb 1 14:23:59 UTC 2019


On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 7:18 AM Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 07:02:44AM -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> > ...
> > Perhaps I mischaracterized the situation; it is definitely correct to
> > say that the discussion on freebsd-ports@ revealed nearly unanimous
> > agreement that people would prefer GTK3 be the default.
>
> This saddens me a lot, in this case. :-(  There's nothing broken with
> Gtk+2 that would require a "fix" such as Gtk+3.  Is there any reason as
> to why switch at all, except higher version number?

The discussion on freebsd-ports@ revealed nearly unanimous agreement
that people would prefer GTK3 be the default.

Personally I think it's absurd that vim, a console app, ship with
*any* GUI by default. I would far rather have seen vim-gui be a
separate package.

# Adam


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