I believe that the GUI is "normally" compiled in, but that on some systems it's optional. Certainly people are encouraged to write their vim configurations to test whether a GUI is present (since even with the GUI built-in, you can still run the terminal version), so if people have been paying attention, nothing will break. They may be disappointed that we haven't shipped the GUI yet, but I believe that this project is architecturally complete without it. It's a business decision (congrats, Brian, you're now a Sun Business Unit ;-) as to whether or not we have the resources at the moment to do the GUI. I believe the issue surrounding the GUI was which GUI to use (Motif, Athena, GTK, etc, though GTK is probably the way to go), but I don't recall for sure.
Surely "any GUI is better than none at all, and GTK is overwhelmingly the right answer for Solaris" is the obvious answer here?
I rarely-if-ever use gvim, but why would we stop users from doing it based on such bogus 'arguments'?
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