I think you got the point a bit wrong, but I could be misreading. I think the general reply was "we have rudimentary support for most programming languages bundled with vim." Anything extra, there are plugins. The plugins are on vim.org. Installing most plugins is already very easy - you just untar them into .vim in your $HOME and that's it.
You could make a case that we need a system that automates updates and installation, and I would agree with you. Something along those lines already exists though, see the linked script in the previous email. It's not very good though. Bundling plugins in the main distribution is not trivial, since the core vim developers would need to support those plugins as well, instead of that being the job of plugin authors. Even in the event of such a thing occurring, I do not see how you would chose between many autocompletion plugins for c++, for instance. You have omnicppcomplete (with exuberant ctags) and you have clang_support. Both are good, do slightly different things, yet they clash. Install one or the other. For picking good plugins, there is http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki , which simplifies picking the right plugins for a given language greatly, mostly with hints about installation as well. I agree we would be better off with something like python eggs or something along those lines, but I don't see anyone willing to put in the work and sort those plugins out. I hope I'm wrong. Regards, Gašper P.S. Don't top-post. -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
