Re: Why Vimball archives are evil?

>  - It would be awesome if this supported certain repositories as
> sources (svn, git, mercurial, whathaveyou)

Since vimscript/viml is an interpreted language, there usually is no
difference between the plugin (as distributed) and its sources.

> I'd
> pick tar.gz myself because it's free and works everywhere. You just
> need an OS with tools installed to use it. I don't think that because
> Windows has only zip support you should default to zip.

For the sake of correctness, zip archives work "everywhere" very much
the same as tgz files do. linux etc. users could easily install the
"tools [...] to use it" (a.k.a unzip) -- if it isn't already installed
with the standard installation. AFAIK patents are only an issue if the
archive is encrypted.

IMHO this discussion will be decided and ended by people using their
feet (or whatever is the equivalent English phrase). I personally
seldom consider taking a closer look at plugins that aren't available
as git repository.

Regards,
Tom

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