On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 01:35:27PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > These issues also lead me to question whether linking gtk is > appropriate. (vs. lowest common denominator X11).
I think the gtk binding is more appropriate than X11. I don't think that folks are likely to minimize gtk out of their system, but not X. Possible, certainly, but more likely that they'll pull GNOME off. GTK+ is used in so many apps nowadays, it can stand alone. > Since I plan to list all interfaces as Uncommitted anyway, I don't > know if a final resolution of alternate packages is required to submit > this case, but it might be a good time to discuss.) The ARC isn't going to let you ship two different files in the same pathname. You're likely to find the smoothest sailing along the path that delivers vim and gvim as separate executables, in separate packages, possibly with a patch that makes "vim -g" re-execute gvim (and leave ":gui" out in the cold). There's still the question of the language bindings. You could put them only into gvim for now, I suppose. I have a patch somewhere that turns the python binding into one that can be dynamically loaded, but it doesn't completely work. I hadn't looked into the other bindings (or the gui ones, which should also be done this way, eventually). Danek
