Saturday, September 25, 2010

Re: Why Vimball archives are evil?

Excerpts from Christian Brabandt's message of Sat Sep 25 13:44:03 +0200 2010:
> It is not easily extractable on Windows, if you don't have any extra
> archiver installed. And this is not always possible to install them. So
> I release my plugins as .vba.
Same to .tar.gz then. If you open the file in a text editor you'll see
one line:
" Vimball Archiver by Charles E. Campbell, Jr., Ph.D.
Using google will find you:
http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=1502

So its not a real issue IMHO. I"d like Vim users to tell me that they
have had trouble finding this information.

And as I said: If it was a problew we could start mirroring them as
.zip. So unless someone replies telling "Yes, that would be fine because
*I*'ve had trouble opening .vba files - and I was too dump to find the
community resources (chat, mailinglist)" I stop thinking about it :)

I gave those windows users a chance to reply - noone did. So I conclude
that its no issue for Windows users unless I'm proofed wrong.

Marc Weber

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