Re: what is the advantage to use the vimball to get plugins?

Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 04/03/10 19:01, Tom Link wrote:
>>> Now, there are
>>> plugins distributed required users to install another plugin vimball.
>>
>> vimball is part of the vim. You already have it installed. vba is a
>> simple format for smaller plugins that don't include binary files.
>>
>> What could cause problems on windows is that most vimballs are
>> compressed with gzip, which windows doesn't support out of the box.
>> Since you suggest zip, I assume you're running windows. You could,
>> e.g., use 7zip to uncompress gz files -- or install some gzip port.
>>
>
> WinZip is not exactly freeware, but when I was on Windows some years
> ago it could unzip *.gz (but not *.bz2) compressed files. In the case
> of *.tar.gz it even said there was just one archive inside the
> compressed file and asked if I wanted to extract it.
>
> Installing 7zip (which IIUC is freeware, and, I've been told, knows
> about bz2 format) is also possible, or you could indeed download gzip
> and gunzip (and possibly other Unix utilities) from unxutils,
> GnuWin32, MinGW or Cygwin.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.

I'd like to add a note to vimball (:help vimball-windows) which will
provide Windows users information on how to get gzip. Here's a synopsis
of what Tony has provided so far:

Item Tool/Suite Free Website
---- ---------- ---- -------
7zip tool y http://www.7-zip.org/
Winzip tool n http://www.winzip.com/downwz.htm
unxutils suite y http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
cygwin suite y http://www.cygwin.com/
GnuWin32 suite y http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
MinGW suite y http://www.mingw.org/

(looks best in a fixed-width font)

I am quite willing to add more tools/suites to the list, if y'all would
care to contribute.

Regards,
Chip Campbell

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