<brettstahlman@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> Tom wrote:
>>
>> For example,
>>
>> now that many users (at least some that I know) are using the plugin
>> loader pathogen, all the plugins are installed as
>> ~/.vim/<plugin_name>/ftplugin/foo.vim. Installing with a vimball
>> would place the files in their original vim directories.
>>
>> I ask you; What is wrong with tar.gz?
>
> tar.gz is the format I've always used for my plugin. Recently, I've begun to
> wonder whether this might dissuade some Windows users from downloading. I
> don't use Windows much anymore, but when I did, I typically had Cygwin
> installed, so gzipped tar files weren't a problem. I suspect, however, that
> many Windows users don't have Cygwin, and without it, I'm not sure that the
> average Windows user would know what to do with a gzipped tar file. I did an
> un-scientific survey of plugins on the Vim site and concluded that .zip was
> a much more popular archive format than tar.gz. Although my personal
> preference is for tar.gz, I'm wondering whether .zip makes more sense, as a
> sort of "lowest common denominator": I rarely, if ever, have issues opening
> .zip files on a Linux system, but have to use Linux tools to open tar.gz
> files on a Windows system. Thus, the choice of .zip for plugin archives
> might be analogous to the use of Unix line endings for plugin scripts, on
> the grounds that either Unix or DOS format works on Windows, but only Unix
> format works on Linux.
>
> Is there an official recommendation on this subject? I haven't noticed any
> guidelines on the scripts upload page, which simply refers to a "collection
> of bundled files". I seem to remember at some point seeing a script page
> that provided both .zip and some other format, but I'm not sure how this
> would work in practice: the upload file dialog allows you to specify only
> one file, so each archive format would have to be uploaded separately: i.e.,
> distinct version numbers and release notes (though I suppose they could be
> identical).
Actually, Vim's documentation recommends the use of vimball, followed
by zip archives.
:h distribute-script
Th use of Vimball is the easiest way of installing and uninstalling
plugins. I don't use vimball to package my plugin because it has some
binary files (bmp and png) and Vimball doesn't deal with them. An
advantage of tar.gz is that it deals with symbolic links while zip
archives store copies of the linked files. My plugin has symbolic
links but I distribute a zip file anyway because it's easier for
Windows users to install the plugin since Windows has native support
to the zip format.
Jakson Aquino
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