Re: Why Vimball archives are evil?

On Sep 24, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Marc Weber wrote:

> Excerpts from Tom's message of Fri Sep 24 23:57:29 +0200 2010:
>> 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.
>
> You can choose the directory where vimball installs the files.
> It defaults to ~/.vim. The default of vim-addon-manager is to use a
> different directory for each plugin.
>
> So this behaviour could be fixed easily.

Exactly, that's not the problem. From what I've read around, I assumed there were serious (technical?) problems with vimballs, I just never read about them, that's the reason of my email.

> Side note: vim-addon-manager also tracks dependencies for you. I wrote
> it to make sharing code and depend on existing code easier. You may want
> to give it a try.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Israel

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