> Hi,
>
> As an average user, I sometime to get plugins for vim. For most
> computer users, we download the files and unzip them. Now, there are
> plugins distributed required users to install another plugin vimball.
> It is confused and causing problems for casual users. So here is the
> question, what is the advantages to use vimball? Is it possible the
> zip packages been distributed also?
Have a look at :h GetLatestVimScripts. But I haven' read all the code.
It wasn't good enough for me for various reasons anyway.
Than's why I wrote vim-addon-manager. You can find the link on
www.vim.org (Get the .git version).
advantages:
- a copy of the original code is made if the plugin is not installed
using a VCS. This way you can happily edit the code and create a diff
later.
- git, hg, svn is supported. So you can install latest script versions
- simple dependency managament. (I'd like to make Vim plugins share more
code)
- each plugin is installed into its own directory. So you can rm or
make it no longer load on startup easily.
Note: vim-addon-manager is using the vimball libraries to install
vimball scripts.
Note: There is also Vimana. But you can't add plugins at runtime.
If you're on Linux it should be easy to setup. On Windows you have to
install curl and git etc.. So it might not be the fastest option at them
moment.
If you want to try it and if you have any trouble contact me. I'll fix
problems ASAP.
Marc Weber
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