Re: Why Vimball archives are evil?

A short summary:

A. 'Vimball is evil' arguments:
1. Binaries not supported.
2. "Bad" extension.
3. No compression.

B. 'Vimball is good' arguments (couldn't find a better antonym for evil):
1. Easy to use.
2. Part of standard Vim distribution.
3. Plain text.
4. Destination of scripts can be specified.

Point A.1 could be a problem and I doubt it can be easily fixed without adding dependencies, but most scripts are plain text only, so I don't see it as a big issue.

The author has already offered to address A.2, which doesn't look like a mayor problem either.

A.3 could be a problem for very slow connection downloading a very big vimball archive, a non so common situation given the size of scripts and current tipical bandwith used this days (a telephone modem would be fast enough for most plugins).

So, I still don't get why there's opposition against vimball archives, they seem like a good option to distribute vim plugins.

Israel

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