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

On 24 March 2014, Nikolay Pavlov <zyx.vim@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 24, 2014 11:08 AM, "LCD 47" <lcd047@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 23 March 2014, ZyX <zyx.vim@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> > > 13. Ability to list and remove unused plugins. Reason: it is just
> > > convenient. Low priority.
> >
> > That would imply keeping stats about when each plugin is
> > actually used. A complicated, expensive, and tricky task, for very
> > little gain.
>
> Simplest implementation is just taking a list of currently active
> plugins and remove everything but them. VAM/Vundle/NeoBundle have
> everything what is necessary to perform such a task. It is not so easy
> for FHS-based installations, but it is easy to implement if you just
> do not provide this functionality for this task.
>
> And check out :scriptnames. Recording its output at VimLeave makes
> such functionality rather easy.
[...]

I'm not convinced it's quite that easy. How would you deal with
multiple Vims open at the same time? There's a race condition there
in updating the stats, and Vim doesn't try to deal with things like
locking.

/lcd

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