Excerpts from Boyko Bantchev's message of Thu Nov 24 06:44:09 +0100 2011:
> Besides being potentially dangerous to Windows users, distribution
> of .exe files as "scripts" runs counter to the idea that scripts'
> execution depends on Vim alone, and not on a particular operating
> system.
So do we all agree that Vim is missing a :call
download('http://','destination') function?
Then scripts could ask and download exe files for the user.
I'd also vote for an md5 implementation then so that the download can be
verified?
Yes - I know, Vim is an editor only - and not Emacs. But shipping with
enough tools to bootstrap more features would not hurt much.
Think about the problem this script tries to solve.
Its not an arbitrary executable, its ctags. I haven't verified it. But
we should also think about the "why did this happen" in addition to "do
we want this?".
Marc Weber
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