Hello, "Erik Falor" wrote: > I can understand the dilemma relying on external sites presents. > > On one hand, as an author, I don't want to be responsible for maintaining > tips on multiple sites. If I update a script or refine a tip, I don't want to > have to update it twice, or thrice. Directing to an external site means that > I only have to fix the tip once. > > On the other hand, broken links are no fun, and they never seem to be cleaned > up in a timely fashion. I wouldn't endorse pointing tips to personal web > pages which may not exist next month. But vim.sourceforge.net is probably not > going anywhere. > > In regard to the "less is more" tip I posted last month, instead of linking > to vim.sf.net I could just put the text of the batch file in the tip. It is > short. And it probably won't change. > > In the end, my feeling is that it is appropriate to link to vim.sf.net , and > for other sites it is not so appropriate. I think that because vim.sf.net is > the official site for Vim, it is appropriate to assign it this special > status. And it reinforces idea that is the central repository for Vim > scripts. Well, it is, isn't it?
Somehow you are perfectly right. However, not every thing deserve to/must be on vim.sf. For instance, I see two "scripts" I'm maintaining that have almost nothing to do there: - one is a bash script (that helps running vim (and all other win32 applications) from an exotic configuration (cygwin)) - another is an unstable (less today than what it used to be) fork of a plugin from vim.sf. The first has its own tip, which links to my personal site, an d I'll eventually move it close to a subservion repository (google-code or sf) The second was "advertized" in the comments of several redundant tips, and now lives on google-code. As far as I'm concerned, I'll never move the first script on vim.sf, and I'll not upload the second on vim.sf before a long time as it not ready yet. In the same idea, latex-suite and cream won't move to anywhere. So. What must we do about external links ? Must we rule about it and forbid them? I'm not very inclined to it. Ain't we forgetting the main question? Is there a need to rule, now, on this topic? I'm not sure there are that many tips that link to places that may disapear in a few months. -- Luc Hermitte
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