>> Besides being potentially dangerous to Windows users,
>> distribution of .exe files as "scripts" runs counter to the
>> idea that scripts' execution depends on Vim alone, and not
>> on a particular operating system.
>
> So do we all agree that Vim is missing a :call
> download('http://','destination') function?
> Then scripts could ask and download exe files for the user.
> I'd also vote for an md5 implementation then so that the
> download can be verified?
The problem is that a plugin author has something that works
with, say, Exuberant Ctags so they want people who download the
plugin to have that utility.
The solution is to include a link to the official distribution
in the plugin documentation.
> Its not an arbitrary executable, its ctags.
It's probably a particular version of someone's ctags. But it
might be a hacked version which installs a keylogger.
John
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