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

[Adam Weinberger]

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 6:58 AM Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 01:54:07PM +0000, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> > New Revision: 491810
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/491810
> >
> > Log:
> >   Update vim to patchlevel 865
> >
> >   After discussion on freebsd-ports@, switch the default UI toolkit
> >   from GTK2 to GTK3. There isn't a huge visual difference, so it's
> >   more predicated on the idea that people are more likely to have
> >   GTK3 already installed for other things.
>
> Actually, I believe it's more likely that people have GTK+2 installed,
> not 3.  That said, however, perhaps the best way out would be flavoring
> the port so it offers both packages.

I'm not sure that there's a huge benefit to offering multiple UI
toolkit packages. There's not much difference between the GTK2 and the
GTK3 interface. 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.

# Adam


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