Vim-plug: Publish Homebrew formula

[mcandre]

VimPlug is awesome! Could we get a formula published to the Homebrew package manager, to make it easier to install?

[mschilli87]

Easer than copy/pasting

curl -fLo '~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim' --create-dirs \
    'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim'

to a terminal?
I'm not a Mac user but how much simpler than that can it get? :wink:

[mcandre]

Copying and pasting arbitrary text blobs is the opposite of automation. Copying and pasting arbitrary text is accident-prone, requires advanced user knowledge, and actually presents security risks. Better to provide a tested formula.

[ziweiwu]

That's a good idea.

[junegunn]

Homebrew will not install plug.vim in your .vim directory, so you'll have to put an extra line in your Vim configuration. I don't like it because it's an extra step that only applies to a subset of vim-plug users and it may confuse the others.

The above command is just for downloading a single file from GitHub via secure SSL connection (_"Download plug.vim and put it in the "autoload" directory."_ from README page). You don't have to use the exact command.

So I don't see much point of using Homebrew, but you can write a formula and send a pull request to homebrew-core if you want.

[ziweiwu]

Make sense, home brew is bit redundant.

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[CaraJDonnelly]

I would also like a homebrew formula for vim-plug.

Encouraging people to copy-paste complicated commands into their terminals is encouraging unsafe behavior.

[windware-ono]

So I don't see much point of using Homebrew

People want a unified package management and not keep 1 software under 'git' command which also makes updating harder than just hitting the 'update' command on homebrew.

Homebrew is not just for Mac but there's also Linuxbrew.

[junegunn]

@CaraJDonnelly @windware-ono If you really want it, you can make a Homebrew formula for vim-plug and send a pull request to homebrew-core. I don't need one so I have no plan to work on it.