Vim appears no longer to be built with GUI

[8573]

Issue description

nixpkgs's Vim packages appear no longer to be built with GUI support. Packages affected include vim, uncustomized vim_configurable, and customized vim_configurable, even if the last has its gui parameter explicitly set (vim_configurable.override {gui = "gtk3";}).

Steps to reproduce

nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A vim
./result/bin/vim -g

Technical details

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 4.14.48, NixOS, 18.09pre147850.2428f5dda13 (Jellyfish)
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: yes
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.0.4
• channels(root): "nixos-18.09pre147850.2428f5dda13"
• nixpkgs: /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos

[8573]

I see that that "gui parameter" has been renamed to guiSupport.

vim_configurable.override {guiSupport = "gtk2";} and vim_configurable.override {guiSupport = "gtk3";} both seem to have GUI support, but I'll leave this open unless it was intentional to drop GUI support from non-overridden vim_configurable.

[FRidh]

This is potentially a regression of #43886. If any behavior changes, please open a PR.

[7c6f434c]

It is indeed a behaviour change that vimHugeX as defined stopped providing a huge Vim with some X11 GUI.

[7c6f434c]

@FRidh Should guiSupport be re-enabled at the vimHugeX or vim_configurable level?

[LnL7]

I thought this was kind of intentional. We should cleanup the options a bit more but probably best to do one thing at a time.

[7c6f434c]

Well, having a vim huge is a good idea in my opinion, and @FRidh implied that vim_configurable was not supposed to change too much this time. Next step is probably some choice for the default size, and doing something about vimNoX (should it be built from an old fork?) and moving some costlier options to vimHugeX proper. I am not going to use a non-huge vim anyway, though…

[FRidh]

@FRidh implied that vim_configurable was not supposed to change too much this time

Any changes functionally I consider regressions. What is done with them I leave to the community that uses it.