James Vega wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:53:15PM -0800, Tom Link wrote: > >> Maybe somebody has some use for this. I wrote a small ruby script that >> allows the creation of vimballs (plain text or gzipped) from the >> command line. >> > > I'm still curious what purpose vimballs serve over a standard archive > format like zip or tar.gz. From a distribution perspective, all they've > done is made my work harder when trying to include vim scripts in a > package for a Linux distribution. > > * they automatically enable help for any enclosed help files * files go where they need to; they're not dependent on the user changing to the appropriate directory first. * one may uninstall the files extracted by a vimball (:RmVimball vimballname) * the vimball itself requires no addtional tools beyond vim itself (compression/decompression is another matter)
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