Please clarify what's going on with Syntastic?

[Mikkel Høgh]

• VAM currently offers a Syntastic2 package that pulls from https://github.com/MarcWeber/syntastic2
• https://github.com/MarcWeber/syntastic2 does not seem to be under active development.
• The original Syntastic repo at https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic is seeing a lot of activity, and is currently up to version 2.3.0. This is somewhat confusing, since Marc's fork also claims to be version 2.

So why the fork? And will it receive updates in the future?

[marco-oweber]

VAM tells you to RTFM (See SetupVAM function): https://github.com/MarcWeber/syntastic2/blob/master/doc/syntastic.txt line 39ff

I want a syntax checker to *only* check syntax, not to run interpreters. I also love the most simple code which gets a job done.

active development?

syntastic2 works for my cases - so there was no need to put more effort into it.

syntastic2 only ues quickfix whereas Syntastic also sets signs etc. (There are additional plugins which can add markers based on quickfix list - I personally never use them.)

Additional questions? continue asking.

[Mikkel Høgh]

Well, I think you should consider doing something about the naming. It's kinda easy to confuse Syntastic2 with Syntastic 2.3.0.

You might also want to add a README-file to your syntastic repo, perhaps just with a link to the vim doc you linked above :)

[marco-oweber]

I've renamed it to vim-addon-syntax-checker