Re: Why Vimball archives are evil?

Hi Marc!

On Sa, 25 Sep 2010, Marc Weber wrote:

> 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

I am not sure I understand. IIRC, vimball needs an external archiving
tool to extract tar.gz files. And there are no on Windows XP. But
vimballs can easily be extracted, as the vimball plugin is distributed
with vim.

regards,
Christian

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