Hi Marc! On Sa, 25 Sep 2010, Marc Weber wrote:
> > I am not sure I understand. IIRC, vimball needs an external archiving > > tool to extract tar.gz files. And there are no on Windows XP. But > > vimballs can easily be extracted, as the vimball plugin is distributed > > with vim. > > Not all vimballs are compressed. Eg narrow_region.vba is not. I know. I created it that way exactly for that reason, that I can install it on my job's system without requiring an external archiver ;) > So maybe only vba.gz files are hard to install for Windows users. Yes. > > But this doesn't change the facts: > - we could easily fix it (mirroring) > - but we should only do so if Windows users say they are interested True. > > But no Windows users did say that (about themselves) yet, did they? No. Well, I did, kind of ;) There used to be a time, when I couldn't extract gzipped files on Windows (XP). But I don't have XP anymore. > So you should talk about .vba.gz explicitly then. True. regards, Christian -- 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
