Status of vim-lite with new vim console option?

mecano

mecano

Hello,

was updating some ports and while searching in /usr/ports/UPDATING I noticed this:
20140220:
AFFECTS: users of editors/vim
AUTHOR: sunpoet@FreeBSD.org

The editors/vim port has been reworked to simplify option handling. In UI
option group, a new option (CONSOLE) was added for users who do not need
GUI support. This option is off by default. You might encounter install
or package failures with "old" option setting. Please run "make config" to
modify your setting.
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So I then had a look at http://www.freshports.org/editors/vim-lite/ and saw changes in pkg-descr and COMMENT dated from february the 28th (8 days after the vim console option change).
Browsed to /usr/ports/editors/vim to see what's going on here and there is just a Makefile there? No pkg-descr?
Is editors/vim-lite going down due to the editors/vim new option?
 
Yes same maintainer I was wondering if it was a process of simplification from him (i.e. getting rid of editors/vim-lite giving the option to have a similar build from editors/vim through options).
As always thanks for your prompt and valuable answer @SirDice.
 
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mecano said:
Yes same maintainer I was wondering if it was a process of simplification from him (i.e. getting rid of editors/vim-lite giving the option to have a similar build from editors/vim through options).
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All editors/vim-lite did was set a couple of options and install editors/vim. The reasoning behind it is that you can have a vim-lite and a vim package. Just by looking at the name of the package you can tell vim-lite isn't a "full" vim. But it's certainly possible to build a vim package using the same settings as vim-lite. Before the CONSOLE option you just had to build vim with WITHOUT_X11 set (the vim-lite port/package also has support for various programming languages disabled).
 
SirDice said:
Before the CONSOLE option you just had to build vim with WITHOUT_X11 set (the vim-lite port/package also has support for various programming languages disabled).
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WITHOUT_X11, I've done that previously, but as you pointed out even with it, too much is built: low footprint is why I like editors/vim-lite so much, using the same editor for all consoles for simple tasks while still being able to use helpers like NerdTREE or supertab, is really great. Guess I was a little afraid sunpoet, the maintainer, was on the way to take away my candies :)
 
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