FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: patch for vim on haiku

[Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2005-03-24 at 17:25:46 [+0100], mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I have often thought about what a minimal Haiku install should look like. 
> There are a lot of shell commands that are uncommonly used that Be included 
> (flex and bison, for example). Should we be strictly bound by what Be did?

Regarding flex and bison I would agree to move them into the development 
tools package. They are also misplaced in our repository, for they should 
live in the buildtools module.

> Vim is a perfect example. Developers will use it (except Francois the 
> Wicked Emacs User :-) ), but most AVERAGE users will not. How much 
> difference would it make in download time to have *only* the most used 
> shell commands as part of the default package, then an add on install that 
> has all of the UNIX goodness that devs want. Something to think about as 
> release time gets closer.

What speaks for vim is that it is the only terminal-based editor. We need 
such a thing or otherwise can't edit anything when logged in from a remote 
machine.

CU, Ingo