Re: Neovim plugin/addon packaging

[Efraim Flashner]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 01:03:23AM -0400, Jack Hill wrote:
> Greetings Guix,
> 
> I'd like to improve the experience of installing Neovim plugins/add-ons with
> Guix. I've submitted #48112 [0] which adds an XDG_DATA_DIRS search path so
> nvim (the Neovim executable name) will be able to find plugins installed by
> guix at …/share/nvim/site.

I guess my first question is does it work? I think I first tried
something similar for vim with 'share/vim/vimfiles' but it didn't
actually work for vim.

> Currently, we only have one such package, neovim-syntastic. I'd like to add
> more. Many plugins are compatible with both vim and nvim. However, they
> search for plugins at different paths. Therefore, the vim-syntastic and
> neovim-syntastic packages, which use the copy-build-system, differ only in
> the destination directories of the install-plan (and changing "Vim" to
> "Neovim" in the description).
> 
> My initial inclination is to remove the duplication of maintaining two
> install-plans (and other arguments) by creating a procedure that would take
> as input a Vim package that uses copy-build-system and output a Neovim
> package with the install-plan re-written.
> 
> Perhaps that solution would be overwrought. How would you recommend handling
> this situation?

My first idea would be to have the one package install the files into
both directories and combine them, but I feel like it falls apart when
it comes to searching for vim/neovim plugins and naming. One package
with two names? Call it vim-neovim-syntastic?

If vim/neovim move more apart and actually need separate plugins in the
future then I guess it would make more sense to have two actual packages
that can be installed by name (vim-foo and neovim-foo).

> [0] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/48112
> 
> Best,
> Jack


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