+1 to move to GitHub, Or include netrw into Vim core.
DrChip, Thanks for your maintaining of netrw. But if you want to get a lot of
contributors, you've better to provide the way that can be easily used and
easily updated for users. ex: GitHub.
And I feel current source code of netrw is not modern. And some behavior is
flacky (Unfortunately, I'm using another file manager). The differences of OSs
(or commands) should be transparent using function instead using "if
has('win32')" in many places. If possibly, should be tested. I feel many codes
of netrw should be fixed be and clean-up. But sending/receiving patch files via
e-mail make developments slowly. For that I also feed you've better to switch
to development using git.
mattn
On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 7:13:37 PM UTC+9, Ingo Karkat wrote:
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> On 22-Jan-2019 10:00 +0100, Charles E Campbell wrote:
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> > Hello:
> >
> > I had two Windows machines; the big one's motherboard died and the
> > other lost windows during an attempt to update (just the) linux
> > partition (it had been a dual boot).
> >
> > So, I'd appreciate some Windows developers help to improve netrw.
> > I've got the latest development copy of netrw on my website
> > (http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#NETRW v165a).
>
> Hello Charles,
>
> First, thank you for keeping up your plugin maintenance over the years
> (it's probably been decades by now :-)
>
> Assuming that you've just lost the Windows hardware, but still have
> license(s), running Windows in a small VM on Linux can be a good
> alternative. VirtualBox is free, and spinning up a small Windows
> instance on demand doesn't take too many resources. (Even my 6
> year-old laptop can do that.)
>
> I suggest that because solely relying on co-developers for platform
> support is hard, at least in my experience.
>
> That notwithstanding, having other people join in is really helpful.
> For that, I would recommend to move your plugin development to GitHub
> (or alternatives, but as it's the top site and Vim and many plugins
> are there, that's a compelling argument). It may initially create more
> work (you need to adapt your workflow, people will start submitting
> all sorts of issues and problems), but it's far superior a process
> than putting a dev snapshot on a website and emailing around patches.
>
> I hope you'll find a setup that suits you well. Keep up the good work!
>
> - -- regards, ingo
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