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wbthomason / packer.nvim

A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim. Uses native packages, supports Luarocks dependencies, written in Lua, allows for expressive config
MIT License
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Is this project dead? #1229

Open superDross opened 1 year ago

superDross commented 1 year ago

I see there have been no new updates since Jan 11 and am wondering if this project has been abandoned? Or whether I should expect this project to be maintained?

sjshuck commented 1 year ago

If it's any clue, the author himself has quietly switched to lazy.nvim:

https://github.com/wbthomason/dotfiles/blob/263e6b1eb2447d40552bf23620f37174f1dd30ac/dot_config/nvim/init.lua

RayZ0rr commented 1 year ago

But it's working properly or has major issues?

halshar commented 11 months ago

it's been 6 months and no updates, I think the author has abandoned the project but it still works fine :)

sjshuck commented 11 months ago

Nothing ever "works fine", software has bugs and contexts change requiring maintenance. I personally will be moving to lazy.nvim when I get the time.

Usually when an open-source maintainer leaves, it's with a message somewhere about not having time etc. Occasionally you'll get a deprecation message or a passing of the baton or "no longer maintained, check out $REPO". The author is still active in open-source, so we can rule out incapacity. I'm uninterested in morality discussions, "he gave this for free" etc. so I'll just post an 😒 emoji and leave it at that.

CharlesARoy commented 9 months ago

If it's any clue, the author himself has quietly switched to lazy.nvim:

https://github.com/wbthomason/dotfiles/blob/263e6b1eb2447d40552bf23620f37174f1dd30ac/dot_config/nvim/init.lua

Well, that's probably the most compelling answer to my question of whether migrating to lazy.nvim is worth it.