Re: Percentage of distros using Python enabled Vim?

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.

Best,
Christian
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