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

I think it's best to have a vim built-in standardized/official plugin manager.

for an ordinary user it's often confusing to choose between many options - so better to have an official one (better have most features centralized/integrated) to start with ...

On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:47 PM, ed jones <sponge69@gmail.com> wrote:

I agree with this. It comes down to freedom of choice really. I see no reason to continue Pathogen, it too depends on git and NeoBundle does such a better job. The others have their own places though.

On 23/03/14 16:15, Michael Hernandez wrote:

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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