Re: Plugin/addon managers

Reply to message «Re: Plugin/addon managers»,
sent 17:47:20 14 July 2011, Thursday
by Eric Weir:

> It is not critical, but I'd like to test my understanding of your
> recommendations regarding git. You recommend that I not install it, for
> now I take it, because if it were installed VAM would in some instances
> install less-than-stable releases of plugins?
Yes. You can forbid this globally, but if you do what you will need git for?

> And thanks especially for this. I'm taking a sabbatical on deciding between
> the vimball approach and VAM. If when I come back to it I go for VAM, this
> will be the way I will do it.
Vimball and VAM are different type of things. You can pack everything into a
vimball and install it by VAM because vimball is nothing more then archive type.
Default unpacker is able to record a list of files that were unpacked, but
nothing can prevent you from writing the same thing for tar.

Original message:
> On Jul 10, 2011, at 3:56 PM, ZyX wrote:
> > Reply to message «Re: Plugin/addon managers»,
> > sent 23:29:36 10 July 2011, Sunday
> >
> > by Eric Weir:
> >> I get "command not found." So I should install git? ZyX said it should
> >> be on my system, but that I shouldn't install it.
> >
> > I never said that, though my words were perhaps unclear. I meant that if
> > you want to make VAM use git all you need is to install it (you don't
> > have to know how to use it), but if you don't want (and I suggested that
> > you should not want) it is not required.
>
> It is not critical, but I'd like to test my understanding of your
> recommendations regarding git. You recommend that I not install it, for
> now I take it, because if it were installed VAM would in some instances
> install less-than-stable releases of plugins?
>
> > Try to do the following:
> > mkdir ~/.vam
> > cd ~/.vam
> > wget http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=13669 \
> >
> > -Ovim-addon-manager-0.4.3.zip
> >
> > mkdir vim-addon-manager
> > cd vim-addon-manager
> > unzip ../vim-addon-manager-0.4.3.zip
> > rm ../vim-addon-manager-0.4.3.zip
> > echo 'let g:vim_addon_manager={}' >> ~/.vimrc
> > echo 'let g:vim_addon_manager.plugin_root_dir=expand("~/.vam")' >>
> > ~/.vimrc
> >
> > then install any plugin (run something like
> >
> > :ActivateAddons VimOutliner
> >
> > in vim).
>
> And thanks especially for this. I'm taking a sabbatical on deciding between
> the vimball approach and VAM. If when I come back to it I go for VAM, this
> will be the way I will do it.
>
> Sincerely,
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------- Eric Weir
> Decatur, GA USA
> eeweir@bellsouth.net