[aur-general] An idea for vim scripts/plugins

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Wed May 13 03:30:27 EDT 2009


On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> Daenyth Blank wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 14:59, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> This seems overly complicated if you ask me. Management of scripts in
>>> your home dir should be up to you (or some script), but system-wide
>>> stuff should install system-wide. I really hate the Debian idea of
>>> needing N steps to install software, instead of just 1 step.
>>>
>>> If you ask me, a script that will manually download and install
>>> scripts from vim.org to your home dir is FAR superior to requiring
>>> additional steps beyond simply installing a package
>>>
>>
>> Big +1 on this from me. KISS
>
> Sure, but KISS in what respect and for whom?
>

KISS is a design principle which applies to software development.

Simplicity refers to the design of your software solution, not to its
usage by an user (that is user friendliness).


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