Common interface for most plugin managers to request a plugin by github url or name?

[marco-oweber]

We cannot make Vundle users use VAM. But we can negotiate a common extensible user interface all plugin managers can use.

For most simple plugins installing a plugin is done by

Intsall NAME or Install foo/bar (github) Intsall git://github.com/foo/bar

This is by far the most common usage. Eventually we can at least settle on such interface so that all the "install instructions" on all plugin pages can be shortened to:

Install foo/bar # or FOO in vim-pi supporting cases " dependencies, omit in VAM case: Install XYY Install bar

This is the source of this proposal: https://github.com/honza/vim-snippets/pull/307#issuecomment-34521018

At least we might think about this..

[ZyX_I]

It is not a vim-pi business, it is VAM/Vundle feature.

vim-pi is “vim plugin index”. It does not contain e.g. VAM rewrites.

[marco-oweber]

You're right, but vim-pi has bucktracker and it wants to serve everybody. So its close and this idea doesn't get lost. We should keep this open for a while cause I referenced it at a vundle issue.