On Wed, 2 May 2007, Dan Price wrote:
> On Wed 02 May 2007 at 09:11AM, Trevor Watson wrote:
> > >Surely "any GUI is better than none at all, and GTK is overwhelmingly
> > >the right answer for Solaris" is the obvious answer here?
> >
> > Personally, I think that any integration of VIM into NV without a GUI is
> > incomplete, regardless of whether or not the intention is to ultimately
> > replace vi/ex or to simply supplement them, and GTK is intuitively
> > obviously the toolkit of choice.
>
> I think that the higher you make the barrier, the fewer projects
> will integrate. non-GUI vim is clearly a useful system component,
> albeit not one you use. Brian clearly articulated the GUI one as a next
> step-- you should instead support him in this work, and offer assistance
> (for example with testing) when he goes on to do the GUI version.
>
> Encouraging people do work in discrete chunks, especially when it
> comes to including free/open software, is a good thing. Brian has
> done a really good job of setting what we call at Sun "boundary
> conditions" and I think we should support that. It means we're more
> likely to see a stream of incremental improvement.
+1
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