Thursday, November 24, 2011

Re: Dubious scripts at vim.org

Excerpts from Benjamin R. Haskell's message of Fri Nov 25 04:59:45 +0100 2011:
> Why? That seems like a pointless restriction. Just because a plugin
> author is unable to write in English doesn't make the plugin somehow
> unworthy of being on vim.org.

Even Chinese people are likely to know people knowing enough English -
so they could ask a friend to translate a minimal description.

I agree that we should be open to everyone. But - we should also try to
protect users if possible and sensible.

I'll take notes about this issue. Eventually we can offer translations
for popular plugins in the future - or ask site visitors to do the
translation if it doesn't exist yet - or use google translator - because
it looks like getting the job done reasonably.

By the way: Additional steps must be taken to make Windows run those
executable by Vim.

Marc Weber

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