After using vimballs, GetLatestVimScripts, and its autoinstall, I wonder what the larger group has thought about in terms of plugin management, dependencies, and standards. I find that some of my favorite plugins require certain versions of one another, or vim7.
In general, I know this is considered an upstream problem that the OS's package management should handle but I find that many plugins aren't available or are outdated in FreeBSD, Debian, Gentoo, etc. I've had some positive experience with applications managing their own plugins and thought that GetLatestVimScripts and vimballs provide a starting point for this. I think for this approach to work that at least a couple of things would need to happen. Plugin developers would need to have a standard format similar to what is necessary for GetLatestVimScripts. Secondly, some provision should probably be made for preserving ones' changes to files while updating configurations. Does anyone think this idea has any traction? If so, what would the next steps be? If not, how have other people solved this problem? -- Ian Tegebo
