Friday, March 4, 2016

Re: Packages

On Friday, March 4, 2016 at 12:37:08 PM UTC-5, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> It does add the extra directory level, so that groups of plugins can be
> installed together. Some installed always, some optionally (or when
> needed or when specific features are present, e.g. Python).
>
> This does make it a bit more complicated, but the docs have the one
> extra command to do it:
> % mkdir -p ~/.vim/pack/my/ever/always
> % cd ~/.vim/pack/my/ever/always
> % unzip /tmp/myplugin.zip

No, the problem that makes it more complicated is that if non-plugins are treated differently, users now have to know that they have to add some lines to their vimrc to get it to load. It's a fairly meaningless distinction that the user doesn't care about.

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