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

Hi Bram, et al.,

On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 08:34 AM PDT, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
BM>
BM> At some point Vim started supporting plugins. At that time it was fine
BM> to add a plugin manually, it was a one-time thing. But now that there
BM> are so many plugins and they get updated often, manually updating
BM> plugins has become tedious.
BM>
BM> I am wondering what Vim users like about plugin managers.
BM> Is there one that works best, that everybody should use?
BM> Are there still features that no existing plugin manager offers?
BM>
BM> Vundle appears to be popular, someone mentioned it's better than
BM> Pathogen. So nobody is using Pathogen?
BM>
BM> But then there is also NeoBundle. But not everybody has git installed
BM> and it depends on that.
BM>
BM> And there also is vim-addon-manager. And Vimball.
BM>
BM> Is it fine to have a choice of plugin managers, or is this causing a
BM> headache (for users and/or for plugin writers). If yes, then we should
BM> pick one plugin manager and retire the others.

I whole-heartedly agree that maintaining a plethora of plugins has become
quite tedious. Of the plugin managers listed above, Vimball is the only
one I use regularly. Although, I often think I need to take the time
for a more complete solution.

If Vim came with a plugin manager (implying it has met with Bram's
approval) that could be set-up/configured easily and which could
automatically keep my plugins updated, I'd be all over it. Kind of like
the Package Updater (pup) on Linux.

I'm glad this is being recognized as an issue and that you are at least
entertaining possible solutions.

Regards,

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Mun

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