Sunday, September 30, 2012

RE: colorschemer release upload failure

richard emberson wrote:
> I am trying to upload the first release of what I call
> colorschemer
> http://www.vim.org/scripts/add_script_version.php?script_id=4240
> ...
> Now, the colorschemer.zip file is a rather big file: 3.5M.
> Would that prevent me from uploading it?

I don't know about any technical limitations, but is a 3.5M
zip file really a Vim script? There are people who routinely
download new scripts and have a look at them from interest.
They will get a surprise when they find themselves looking
at an unzipped file of several megabytes.

If I understand the situation, your zip is a collection of all
colorscheme scripts from vim.org, with some tool for viewing
them? Similar ideas have been tried in the past, but I think
there are far too many colorschemes for anyone to evaluate.
That's particularly the case when many of them are merely a
minor variation on another scheme, and many are somewhat broken.

It might be more helpful for someone to do an evaluation for
what is good on a system of a certain type, and provide a
preview of, say, fifty of the best schemes. See the links at
the following for how that has been attempted:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Switch_color_schemes

John

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