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

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.
--
An architect's first work is apt to be spare and clean. He
knows he doesn't know what he's doing, so he does it carefully and with
great restraint.
As he designs the first work, frill after frill and
embellishment after embellishment occur to him. These get stored away
to be used "next time". Sooner or later the first system is finished,
and the architect, with firm confidence and a demonstrated mastery of
that class of systems, is ready to build a second system.
This second is the most dangerous system a man ever designs.
When he does his third and later ones, his prior experiences will
confirm each other as to the general characteristics of such systems,
and their differences will identify those parts of his experience that
are particular and not generalizable.
The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using
all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first
one. The result, as Ovid says, is a "big pile".
-- Frederick Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month"

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