vim: remove stock version from the Haiku source tree.

[Adek336]

Upgrade from current 6.3 to a newer version, so the :tabnew and friends commands become availlable under Haiku.

[Adek336]

​http://students.mimuw.edu.pl/~ap262965/vim-72-1.tar [33 MiB] This is a preliminary tree of vim 7.2, it should be fully functional.

It needs some cleanup as only files in src/ and runtime/ have been upgraded from 6.3, files in other directories are still from version 6.3 and should be upgraded as well. Additionally, there are probably many files in src/ and runtime/ which come from 6.3 but are no longer needed for 7.2.

I've put a handful of kludges in the source to make it compile; these are marked by a "QQQ" comment, they should be fixed before commiting to trunk.

[korli]

It might be a good idea to host the port somewhere like ports.haiku-files.org and only have an optional package in Haiku. What do you think ?

[Adek336]

That'd for sure help maintaining it. I'd very much like to see VIm or at least VIm without its runtime files included in every install, but seeing how little interest got getting the runtime files installed, I'm starting to think that not a lot of people use VIm and it would very well be an optional package.

[korli]

I think that if VIm can be built on Haiku then good for us. Having an optional package for it would be fair given the size of the runtime files. I don't mean it won't be included by default in Haiku, it might just be easier to maintain.

Also BePorts can host patchs. One missing thing is the rdef file.

[Adek336]

There's a src/vim.rdef file in there.

[axeld]

Vim would definitely make a good optional package.

[Adek336]

​http://students.mimuw.edu.pl/~ap262965/vim-72-2.tar [51 MiB] overgrown due to subversion metadata, which are fully functional, cleaned up a bit
​http://students.mimuw.edu.pl/~ap262965/vim-72-vendor-1.tar [36 MiB] vendor version
​http://students.mimuw.edu.pl/~ap262965/vim-63-vendor-1.tar [23 MiB] vendor version
Haiku version of 6.3 is in Haiku trunk

[Adek336]

72.diff against vanilla 72 base sources+runtime+extra. use the script comp to compile.

[emitrax]

Replying to axeld:

Vim would definitely make a good optional package.

+1 for removing the current version and add a new-up-to-date version as optional package.

It's indeed easier to mantain!

[heto]

In my opinion Haiku should ship with some implementation of vi; for one thing, it is a POSIX requirement after all. I understand Haiku doesn't try to be UNIX, but deliberately not having POSIX compatibility in a thing like this seems stupid.

If vim is too heavy-weight, nvi might be a better fit for the default vi. I don't know how much porting that would require; maybe it just needs to be compiled?

[siarzhuk]

Replying to heto:

If vim is too heavy-weight, nvi might be a better fit for the default vi. I don't know how much porting that would require; maybe it just needs to be compiled?

Is vim, that was build with "+tiny" features set lightweight enough to be included as "stock vi" into Haiku image? And as was already proposed above, the full featured version with GUI can be installed as optional package. I'm working at the moment on moving BeOS GUI code from 6.4 to 7.2 and porting it to Haiku. And I hope that it will be not difficult to make an optional package on base of my work. ;-)

PS: In fact this ticket can be reassigned to me for putting hands on tiny version of vim for default Haiku image. ;-)

[mmadia]

what was decided about vim -- as far as it living in the repository and as an optional package? can this be closed?

[siarzhuk]

Replying to mmadia:

what was decided about vim -- as far as it living in the repository and as an optional package? can this be closed?

As far as I remember, Axel have insisted on complete removing vim from the main source tree. As soon as we have full-featured actual version of vim in optional packages. So, probably, this bug should be still owned by Axel but me. ;-)

[scottmc]

removed in hrev35848.