659652 - Use MSYS vim for MozillaBuild instead of Vim for Windows

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: MozillaBuild, task)

Description

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Although you can change the Windows Vim settings to be more unix-y, MSYS vim has much saner defaults for our workflow, and will always warn with a [dos] flag in the message bar when you open a file with DOS line endings.

Last time I looked the binaries were here and the sources are nearby:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/vim/vim-7.2-2/vim-7.2-2-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/BaseSystem/libiconv/libiconv-1.13.1-2/libiconv-1.13.1-2-msys-1.0.13-dll-2.tar.lzma
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/BaseSystem/gettext/gettext-0.17-2/libintl-0.17-2-msys-dll-8.tar.lzma
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/BaseSystem/termcap/termcap-0.20050421_1-2/libtermcap-0.20050421_1-2-msys-1.0.13-dll-0.tar.lzma

Comment 1

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Ted, do you have any problems with switching to this?

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I don't use vim so I don't care. Looks like I arbitrarily picked this version in bug 495810, so if you want to change it that's fine.

Comment 3

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

There is now MSYS vim 7.3-2 in:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/Extension/vim/vim-7.3-2/vim-7.3-2-msys-1.0.16-bin.tar.lzma/download

Comment 4

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

I'm probably going to file another bug on updating MSYS to 1.0.17. If this is compiled against 1.0.16, will it run against 1.0.17 as well?

Comment 5

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

(In reply to Ryan VanderMeulen from comment #4)
> I'm probably going to file another bug on updating MSYS to 1.0.17. If this
> is compiled against 1.0.16, will it run against 1.0.17 as well?

I'm not sure. I found another version of Vim supposed for MSYS 1.0.17 though:

http://en.sourceforge.jp/projects/sfnet_msysdev/downloads/ALL/vim/vim-7.3/vim-7.3-1-msys-1.0.17-bin.tar.lzma/

but I've not tested any of those binaries.

Comment 6

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

> I'm not sure. I found another version of Vim supposed for MSYS 1.0.17 though:

s/supposed/supposedly

Comment 7

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

I actually got it working locally just fine.

Comment 8

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Which one do you refer to? The one for 1.0.16 in comment 3, or 1.0.17 in comment 5?

Comment 9

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Comment 3.

Comment 10

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Plan is to do this in bug 791511.

Comment 11

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Bug 791511 has landed. A test build that includes this is available at the link below. Feedback welcome :)
http://people.mozilla.org/~rvandermeulen/MozillaBuildSetup2.0.0pre3.exe