Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Re: Percentage of distros using Python enabled Vim?

Christian Brabandt wrote:

> On Di, 19 Jan 2016, Steve Litt wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm thinking of making some Vim centered software. I could use VimL,
> > but for me VimL is incredibly difficult to use. Or I could require
> > Python enabled Vim, and do all the Vim programming in Python. Of
> > course, this would fail if user's Vim wasn't compiled with Python
> > capabilities.
> >
> > What percentage of today's distros do you think are compiled without
> > Python capabilities?
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> Maybe take a look at Debians popularity contest:
>
> https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=vim-gnome+vim-nox+vim-gtk+vim&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=2012-01-01&to_date=2016-01-19&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1
>
> Take this example, this plots the number of people voting on vim,
> vim-nox, vim-gnome and vim-gtk (of which only vim does not contain the
> python dependency I believe) between 2012 and today.
>
> So you can see vim without python is an order of magnitude more
> installed. However, this might be caused, by users who want vim (or a vi
> clone) and install the first vim package they find.

Nice graph. I'm not sure if it's fair, but "emacs" does not get close..

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