Jakson A. Aquino wrote:
...[snip]...
Is there an official recommendation on this subject? I haven't noticed any
guidelines on the scripts upload page, which simply refers to a "collection
of bundled files". I seem to remember at some point seeing a script page
that provided both .zip and some other format, but I'm not sure how this
would work in practice: the upload file dialog allows you to specify only
one file, so each archive format would have to be uploaded separately: i.e.,
distinct version numbers and release notes (though I suppose they could be
identical).
Actually, Vim's documentation recommends the use of vimball, followed
by zip archives.
:h distribute-script
Ah! I had overlooked this. I had avoided using Vimball because (not
realizing it was part of the standard Vim distribution) I mistakenly
assumed it would add a dependency. I see that it was first incorporated
in Vim 7. I'm thinking pretty much everyone should be using Vim 7 by
now, so I guess I'll switch to packaging with Vimball.
Thanks,
Brett S.
Th use of Vimball is the easiest way of installing and uninstalling
plugins. I don't use vimball to package my plugin because it has some
binary files (bmp and png) and Vimball doesn't deal with them. An
advantage of tar.gz is that it deals with symbolic links while zip
archives store copies of the linked files. My plugin has symbolic
links but I distribute a zip file anyway because it's easier for
Windows users to install the plugin since Windows has native support
to the zip format.
Jakson Aquino
--
You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
