Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

> On Mar 23, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Bram Moolenaar <Bram@moolenaar.net> wrote:
>
>
> At some point Vim started supporting plugins. At that time it was fine
> to add a plugin manually, it was a one-time thing. But now that there
> are so many plugins and they get updated often, manually updating
> plugins has become tedious.
>
> I am wondering what Vim users like about plugin managers.
> Is there one that works best, that everybody should use?
> Are there still features that no existing plugin manager offers?
>
> Vundle appears to be popular, someone mentioned it's better than
> Pathogen. So nobody is using Pathogen?
>
> But then there is also NeoBundle. But not everybody has git installed
> and it depends on that.
>
> And there also is vim-addon-manager. And Vimball.
>
> Is it fine to have a choice of plugin managers, or is this causing a
> headache (for users and/or for plugin writers). If yes, then we should
> pick one plugin manager and retire the others.
>

I think it's fine to have a choice of manager. I was using Vundle because it was so easy but I've switched to NeoBundle because it is simple like Vundle, but can handle automation of post-install tasks such as compiling a auxiliary component for you.

--Mike H

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