Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Hi there! > > Work on vim is progressing steadily, and a new alpha version has just > been released. One of the new versions is a GTK+ frontend. I would like > to include this frontend in the vim packages when a stable vim is > released. Unfortunately this will add to the already growing number of > vim variants out there, so I would like some opinions on what packages > you want. My current proposal is this: > > vim-tiny - will not change > vim-perl - currently uses Xaw, might switch to GTK+ > vim-tcl - currently uses Xaw, might switch to GTK+ > vim-python - currently uses Xaw, might switch to GTK+ > vim - will stay with Xaw or drop X support. > vim-gtk - new package, standard vim but with GTK+ > > The reason for keeping a binary without GTK+ is that new GTK+ versions > are made rather frequently and I do not feel like releasing a new vim > package every couple of weeks.
I would probably use vim-python if it was based on GTK. -Mitch
