On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Shiny Bling <kybul...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 31 December 2014 19:51:20 UTC+1, Steve Hall wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Shiny Bling <kybu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > My main reason doing the build is that Vim Windows builds like the >> > above don't include 3rd party dependencies(ruby, python, ...). You >> > have to install them yourself. I needed ruby for some plugin and when >> > I added it, the whole Vim process was crashing. There was also a case, >> > when I downloaded some Vim build and it required Ruby version, which >> > was not yet released at http://rubyinstaller.org/ >> >> >> You can use the dynamic flags for several dependencies to avoid this. >> My builds use them for these major ones: >> >> >> +gettext/dyn >> +iconv/dyn >> +lua/dyn >> +multi_byte_ime/dyn >> +perl/dyn >> +python/dyn >> +python3/dyn >> +ruby/dyn > > In order for that to work reliably, the end user has to install exact dlls > which were used during the build. Otherwise, Vim can crash if there are > compiler ABI incompatibilities(mingw vs Microsoft compiler) or incompatible > function signature changes in the dlls. Let alone the fact, that the end user > has to install dlls of languages he might have no idea about only because > they are required by plugins. I think that for a smooth experience, it should > be all distributed together. That is how it works in Linux distributions.
Well, except that python/ruby/etc are managed by the package manager. Windows 10 will ship with a package manager: https://github.com/OneGet/oneget So hopefully the situation will improve. However, vim-single-drop is a great effort. I tried it and didn't find any problems with it, except that it doesn't ship with luajit. http://files.kaoriya.net/vim/ ships with luajit, and the performance difference for lua-heavy plugins like unite.vim is significant. What is your strategy for scenarios where users what to install python/ruby packages with pip/gem? What happens when they update vim-single-drop? What happens if they have ruby or python already installed and on their $PATH, and expect some package to be available, but it isn't because vim-single-drop uses a different site-packages, etc.? Justin M. Keyes -- -- 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 vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
