Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

Excerpts from Nikolay Pavlov's message of Tue Mar 25 20:32:13 +0000 2014:
> With VAM you can ask to update specific plugin only. Action "update all
> plugins for which there is a newer version available" is exactly what VAM
> does if you disallow using VCS sources (otherwise it may switch source
> types without notice (or with, I do not actually remember)) (updating VCS
> sources which were installed manually still works fine).
To be honest I don't know either. We haven't defined behaviour.
VAM should
- run git pull if a plugin directory happens to be a git repository
- hg update if its contains a .hg directory
and so on.

Thus if you turn a .git into a .hg repository :VamUpdate plugin-name
should do what you want.

But you're right that one final goal could be a to support fixed
versions & update sources. The perfect "user experience" would be
"choose yourself" which is why the last update I made was that
important: It allows passing dictionaries instead of plugin names.

Thus Activate(['plugin-name']) can be replaced by
Activate([{'name': 'plugin-name', 'force-change-branch-on-update': 1 'force-hash': 'xxx345'}])

The force-* keys are not supported yet, but are trivial to add and document.
Thus user would have full control.

I think its more important to collaborate on the declaration than on the
implementation. And I even failed on a "InstallPlugin" proposal.

Thus somebody has to step up and just "win the race" - which doesn't
make sense now that neobundle exists unless waiting how that turns out
to be ... (my view).

Marc Weber

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