[vim/vim] Consider aliasing the "normal" build to "huge" (Issue #19567)

[Martin Tournoij]

arp242 created an issue (vim/vim#19567)

Here are the sizes of the normal and huge builds:

3,548K │ normal-O2
3,078K │ normal-Os

3,754K │ huge-O2     +206K
3,261K │ huge-Os     +172K

The huge build is about 200K larger, which is not that much on 3.5M. Even more so since most people will use the runtime files, which is 47M for a full install, or 27M if you remove translated docs and GUI stuff. Many additional features in the normal build require the runtime files.

I'm not really aware of any distro that ships separate "huge" and "normal" builds?

So I propose "normal" to include all the features currently in "huge" and "huge" is made an alias of "normal", similar to how "big" and "small" were aliased to "huge" and "tiny" a few years ago.

This would simplify the build selection a bit, can simplify the CI a bit, etc.

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[Christian Brabandt]

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I'd say this is a resonable suggestion.

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[Ajit Thakkar]

Agreed. 

I used normal builds for 25 or more years. I switched to huge a few years ago when I noticed that the relative size difference had shrunk over the years.

If the builds are made identical, the default name should be normal rather than huge.