<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style><style type='text/css'>body { font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 8Impr; color: #000000}</style></head><body>Hello,<br><br>"Erik Falor" <ewfalor@gmail.com> wrote:
<br><span class="gmail_quote">> </span>I can understand the dilemma relying on external sites presents.<br>>
<br>> On one hand, as an author, I don't want to be responsible for maintaining tips on multiple sites. If I update a script or refine a tip, I don't want to have to update it twice, or thrice. Directing to an external site means that I only have to fix the tip once. <br>>
<br>> On the other hand, broken links are no fun, and they never seem to be cleaned up in a timely fashion. I wouldn't endorse pointing tips to personal web pages which may not exist next month. But <a href="http://vim.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">vim.sourceforge.net</a> is probably not going anywhere.<br>>
<br>> In regard to the "less is more" tip I posted last month, instead of linking to <a href="http://vim.sf.net" target="_blank">vim.sf.net</a> I could just put the text of the batch file in the tip. It is short. And it probably won't change.<br>>
<br>> In the end, my feeling is that it is appropriate to link to <a href="http://vim.sf.net" target="_blank">vim.sf.net</a>, and for other sites it is not so appropriate. I think that because <a href="http://vim.sf.net" target="_blank">vim.sf.net</a> is the official site for Vim, it is appropriate to assign it this special status. And it reinforces idea that is the central repository for Vim scripts. Well, it is, isn't it?<br><br><br>Somehow you are perfectly right. <br><br>However, not every thing deserve to/must be on vim.sf. <br>For instance, I see two "scripts" I'm maintaining that have almost nothing to do there:<br>- one is a bash script (that helps running vim (and all other win32 applications) from an exotic configuration (cygwin))<br>- another is an unstable (less today than what it used to be) fork of a plugin from vim.sf.<br><br>The first has its own tip, which links to my personal site, an d I'll eventually move it close to a subservion repository (google-code or sf)<br></ewfalor@gmail.com>The second was "advertized" in the comments of several redundant tips, and now lives on google-code.<br><br>As far as I'm concerned, I'll never move the first script on vim.sf, and I'll not upload the second on vim.sf before a long time as it not ready yet.<br><br>In the same idea, latex-suite and cream won't move to anywhere.<br><br><br><br>So. What must we do about external links ? Must we rule about it and forbid them? I'm not very inclined to it.<br><br>Ain't we forgetting the main question? Is there a need to rule, now, on this topic? I'm not sure there are that many tips that link to places that may disapear in a few months.<br><br>-- <br>Luc Hermitte<br></body></html>