On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Aaron Griffin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Magnus Therning <[email protected]> wrote: >> Andrei Thorp wrote: >>> >>> Yeah, I guess it is more work for you :) >> >> For me, in what role? As a vim user on an Arch system, or as a maintainer >> of packages for vim plugins? >> >> For the 2nd I would of course not mind if other provide PKGBUILDs that >> install plugins so that vim-scripts-mgr picks them up. >> >>> Anyway, so what don't you like about Mr. Griffin's proposal? >> >> His proposal is great, except that there is no running code :-) >> >> I'd love to have vim go out and check for updates to plugins, similar to how >> firefox/thunderbird does, or have a package manager for vim, that I as a >> user can run to get updates or install new plugins. However, AFAIK neither >> exists at the moment, and I'm not the one to write either. > > Actually there was one somewhere. Vim scripts have standard headers > that specify the versions and script name and the like. Someone made a > script to parse that and update, but I can't find it anywhere.
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2613 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2444
