Hi Steve! On Di, 19 Jan 2016, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all, > > I'm thinking of making some Vim centered software. I could use VimL, > but for me VimL is incredibly difficult to use. Or I could require > Python enabled Vim, and do all the Vim programming in Python. Of > course, this would fail if user's Vim wasn't compiled with Python > capabilities. > > What percentage of today's distros do you think are compiled without > Python capabilities? > > Thanks, Maybe take a look at Debians popularity contest: https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=vim-gnome+vim-nox+vim-gtk+vim&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=2012-01-01&to_date=2016-01-19&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 Take this example, this plots the number of people voting on vim, vim-nox, vim-gnome and vim-gtk (of which only vim does not contain the python dependency I believe) between 2012 and today. So you can see vim without python is an order of magnitude more installed. However, this might be caused, by users who want vim (or a vi clone) and install the first vim package they find. Best, Christian -- Deswegen sagte man ganz richtig: "Wer die Menschen betrügen will, muss vor allen Dingen das Absurde plausibel machen." -- Goethe, Maximen und Reflektionen, Nr. 1027 -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
