Tom Link wrote:
>> a#b#version0_1#foo() ?
>>     
>
> I was just wondering what would happen if you installed package A
> consisting of
>
> foo.vim (version 2)
> bar.vim
>
> and then installed package B containing the files
>
> foo.vim (version 1)
> boo.vim
>
> Then I remember that questions older windows installers used to ask:
> "Do you really want to overwrite shdkishd.dll with shdkishd.dll".
>
> The vimball approach would be to have three separate packages A, B,
> and foo. If you wanted to update foo, you wouldn't have to touch
> packages A and B. With your approach, you'd have to update the
> installers for A and B. But maybe I got it all wrong and maybe there
> is an obvious solution for that. And maybe such questions would become
> obsolete anyway with the use of git.
>   
Additionally, plugin authors may include a
  " GetLatestVimScripts: ...
lines, one for each package their plugin needs.  The next
  :GLVS
will then go and acquire all of them (assuming they're out-of-date).

Regards,
Chip Campbell


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