where did GVim.app go?

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Thu Mar 6 23:13:31 PST 2008


On Mar 6, 2008, at 11:50, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Todd Wasson wrote:
>
>> I haven't updated in quite a while, as I was waiting for things to  
>> calm down
>> after Leopard, but I just updated vim-app and notice there there's  
>> no longer a
>> GVim.app.  This was particularly useful as I could drag text files  
>> onto it and
>> have it spawn off a Vim.app for each one.  If I drag them onto  
>> Vim.app, they
>> replace the currently-edited document, which is not quite as  
>> useful for me.  I
>> don't see any new ports or variants, and I couldn't find anything  
>> in the
>> archives.  Any ideas?
>
> GVim.app is some binary which is working on PowerPC only.  
> Unfortunately,
> I don't know whoever created it and how.
>
> I don't like including binaries into ports at all, but I kept it
> available on PowerPC; but it is not installed on Intel.
>
> If you are able to provide a GVim.app for Intel (best in source  
> form, so
> it can be maintained), I would be glad to include it into the port  
> again.

Shouldn't the existing PowerPC binary work on Intel Macs through  
Rosetta?

"sudo port install graphviz +gui" installs a PowerPC app even on  
Intels. No problem.



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