Saturday, September 25, 2010

Re: 答复: Re: Why Vimball archives are evil?

Сбт, 25 Сен 2010, Stahlman Family писал(а):
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> bill lam wrote:
> >Сбт, 25 Сен 2010, Stahlman Family писал(а):
> >>more likely he is to move on to something else without trying the
> >>plugin.
> >
> >I agree this likely to happen, but it is also likely that some people who will
> >just move on without trying the plugin if it is a vimball format. FWIW I'm
> >one of them.
>
> Out of curiosity, why would you not install a plugin using the
> Vimball format, given that 1) it is the format recommended in the Vim
> documentation "for ultimate portability" (:help distribute-script),
> and 2) it requires only a running instance of Vim to install?

1) what is recommended by vim documentation alone is a not strong reason.
2) My view is vim being a text editor should not execute programs that I
have never known before.

I guess vimball as an official recommendation is intended to achieve something bigger
like rpm or deb package for automatic installation, dependence checking,
resolving conflicts and packaging versioning and updating. However all these
seem bloated for a text editor.

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