RE: Plugin/addon managers

Why in hell in the name of god and all demons i cannot unsuscribe of this mailgroup

> From: zyx.vim@gmail.com
> To: vim_use@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: Plugin/addon managers
> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:03:17 +0400
>
> 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