Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Re: percentage of vim users running python

On Tuesday 29 June 2010 20:20:27 Ted wrote:

> I'm wondering if there are some figures somewhere that would
> provide some sort of estimate of the percentage of vim users
> who have python installed, or would be free of objections to
> installing it if a module required it. I'm working on some
> vim modules, to be released for general use, that are
> threatening to become pretty complicated, and would prefer to
> write them in python. Is it likely that this would lock out
> a significant portion of the vim user population? Is it
> frowned upon to use external languages in cases where it's
> not entirely necessary? Python is more or less ubiquitous on
> linux installs, but I don't feel like I could guess at how
> many vim users on other platforms would be unable or
> unwilling to install it.

i'd like to count myself among those who like a lean build
with no extra languages compiled in and as few plugins running
as possible

whatever your modules do i would not consider them if they
require a python enabled vim

sc

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