Re: Percentage of distros using Python enabled Vim?

On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:42:08 +0100
Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org> wrote:

> Hi Steve!
>
> On Di, 19 Jan 2016, Steve Litt wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm thinking of making some Vim centered software. I could use VimL,
> > but for me VimL is incredibly difficult to use. Or I could require
> > Python enabled Vim, and do all the Vim programming in Python. Of
> > course, this would fail if user's Vim wasn't compiled with Python
> > capabilities.
> >
> > What percentage of today's distros do you think are compiled without
> > Python capabilities?
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> Maybe take a look at Debians popularity contest:
>
> https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=vim-gnome+vim-nox+vim-gtk+vim&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=2012-01-01&to_date=2016-01-19&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1
>
> Take this example, this plots the number of people voting on vim,
> vim-nox, vim-gnome and vim-gtk (of which only vim does not contain
> the python dependency I believe) between 2012 and today.
>
> So you can see vim without python is an order of magnitude more
> installed. However, this might be caused, by users who want vim (or a
> vi clone) and install the first vim package they find.

Thanks Christian,

The graph you referenced is very informative and causes me to change
the question.

On Debian, all I'd need to do is ask people to install vim-gtk or
vim-gnome or vim-nox to get some sort of Python.

So my real question is: On what percentage of today's distros is it
easy and painless to install a Python-enhanced Vim using the distro's
package manager?

Thanks Christian. If I hadn't seen that graph, I might have gone off
half cocked.

SteveT

Steve Litt
January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
http://www.troubleshooters.com/28


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