Friday, September 24, 2010

Re: Why Vimball archives are evil?

> That's it, I'd like to know the reasons behind so much opposition against plugins being released as vimball archives.

You cannot (or could not) include binary files like images. In past
discussions I once got the impression that the criticism of vimballs
wasn't so much about vimballs but about the fact that many vimballs
are distributed gz-compressed, which windows users cannot deal with
without the installation of an additional app.

I personally too prefer github repositories though. There are several
plugins that make life with plugins distributed this way easier: the
aforementioned pathogen, vimpluginloader by ZyX (that AFAIK integrates
with Marc's vim-addon-manager), (shameless plug) my own tplugin, and
maybe others.

Regards
Tom

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